Coming back for more: NYC DA after more info on @getsworse

Occupy Wall Street activist and writer Malcolm Harris (@getsworse) today received a second subpoena from Twitter.

Due process and the Constitution: goodbye to all that

H.R. 347: free speech killer?

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If Congress has its way, the activists above could go to jail for a year (or even ten years) simply for disrupting this congressional hearing.

Welcome to the USA, data subject!

It’s official. That is what you are in the age of Total Information Awareness. And the Department of Homeland Security has your back.

Thursday technology links round-up

From warrantless location tracking to spooky data mining and everything in between, here's your Thursday tech links round-up.

Stasi 2.0: the West Virginia fusion center’s snitch app

Don't like your neighbor? Think your kid's math teacher unfairly gave her a bad grade? Have an ex-girlfriend you'd like to bother?

Don't fear: there's an easy way to (anonymously) send the police after them, now with a mobile phone app! 

Portland, OR restricts JTTF operations

In April 2005, then-mayor Tom Potter withdrew Portland City police from participating in the local Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) with the FBI, citing public concerns about improper spying and other civil liberties issues, making it the first city in the nation to pull out of a JTTF agreement with the FBI.

What’s wrong with this picture? (Media silence on H.R. 347)

Earlier this week we covered the passage of a terrible bill that now awaits the President's signature. Only three representatives voted against H.R. 347, which restricts speech rights at demonstrations.

Spying on the climate: national security and climate change

Via LinkTV

Another looking glass moment: the President as judge, jury and executioner

There was a time when the notion that the executive branch possesses the power  to decide (in secret, with no explanation given) whether to execute an American citizen would have provoked outrage.

There was a time when due process and the Fifth Amendment had something to do with the courts.