DDoSecret – a journalist collective known as
a more transparent alternative to Wikileaks – published hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from law enforcement, totaling nearly 270 gigabytes, on Juneteenth.
That date – 19 June – is a holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who were enslaved in the US. There’s currently a push to make the date into
a national holiday – a movement bolstered by the nationwide Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.
DDoSecrets, which refers to itself as a “transparency collective,” has dubbed the release
BlueLeaks.
On Friday,
DDoSecrets said on Twitter that the BlueLeaks archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources”, including “police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more.”
Fusion Centers are state-owned and operated entities that gather and disseminate law enforcement and public safety information between state, local, tribal and territorial, federal and private sector partners.
DDoSecrets published the data in a publicly accessible, searchable portal that says it contains more than 1 million files, such as scanned documents, videos, emails, audio files, and more.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06...partments/
Update: Twitter Banned DDOSecrets account and is blocking the link in DMs.
As for me I think if Law Enforcement monitoring of social media/forums for people who disagree or post is interesting. With that said I keep my comments to myself.
