News you might have missed over the weekend

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Terror Tuesday: What would Ron Ridenhour say about Bradley Manning?

Ron who?

Does anyone remember My Lai?

Targeting Americans for death and the breakdown of checks and balances

So we have entered the Age of Sequestration, thanks to the spectacular meltdown of Congressional bipartisanship.

NYPD, federal agents raid Rebel Diaz Art Collective in South Bronx

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Facebook in the news again for violating user privacy

Facebook has long been a major target of the privacy community. Law enforcement, on the other hand, maintains affection for the big blue dominator because of how broad and deep the company's data pool extends.

Video montage reveals resistance to DHS checkpoints in the southwest

You've probably heard by now that the Department of Homeland Security has claimed the authority to interrogate and search people anywhere within 100 miles of a US border, even without suspicion of wrongdoing or warrants. Take a look at the map below to see whether you live in that constitution-free-zone. (Click to enlarge.)

Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’

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Freaked out? See here, here and here.

Google glasses and our collective failure to act on digital privacy

Imagine! Glasses (or someday contact lenses?) that allow you to see the internet! Like that cool table at your friend's house? Find out how much it costs and where to get it simply by looking at it. Curious about apartments in this neighborhood? Look around and magically call up Craigslist onto your eye/face/screen/whatever. You'll never wonder anything for longer than two seconds, ever again! (Except maybe if that cutie at the gym likes you back. Google most likely doesn't know that, yet.)

Today it’s spying, tomorrow indefinitely detaining or killing?

This guest blog was written by ACLUm intern Max Bauer

Supreme Court majority punts on the question of warrantless spying