Judge to Twitter: turn over OWS protester’s tweets

Twitter tried.

“See Something, Say Something” — unless it’s omnipresent government surveillance

UPDATE: On July 2, 2012, the MBTA police Twitter account tweeted a copy of the agency's new photography policy. The policy says that people are free to take pictures at MBTA stations, but not of "designated Restricted Areas". It doesn't say that you can't go inside the restricted area to take pictures, simply that you can't take pictures of the restricted area. Does that apply even if the "Restricted Area" is within plain sight? How does that work?

Challenging the Surveillance State, Glenn Greenwald

Do not miss this excellent talk by civil liberties blogger and attorney Glenn Greenwald. It's worth watching in whole, but if you are particularly interested in the chilling effects of society-wide surveillance, skip ahead to the fourth video down.

“Civil Liberties in the Age of Obama”

Civil liberties blogger Glenn Greenwald spoke at the Socialism 2012 conference in Chicago on June 29, 2012. Look for that talk here when the video is uploaded.

Greenwald spoke at the conference last year, as well, during which he described President Obama's civil liberties record through 2011. 

Technologists, responsibility and the degradation of the rule of law

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Watch the ACLU of Massachusetts' Kade Crockford, Occupy Boston's Matt Womer, Center for Democracy and Technology's Mark Stanley and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society's Rob Faris discuss technology and democracy, moderated by Chris Walsh of the Berkman Center.

No reckoning with torture as Convention Against Torture marks its 25th year

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Terror Tuesday: Jimmy Carter’s lament

Three and a half years ago former president Jimmy Carter was upbeat about the country and prospects for human rights after the years in which the Bush Administration viewed the Geneva Conventions as a “quaint anachronism” and moved with impunity beyond the rule of law.

DEA administrator can’t say whether heroin or marijuana is worse for health

In June 2012, Democratic Congressman from Colorado Jared Polis questioned DEA administrator and law enforcement officer Michelle Leonhart about the differences between various illegal drugs. Polis represents Colorado, where marijuana has been decriminalized and medical marijuana legalized. He asked Leonhart directly about whether the DEA supports the latter. Watch the video to get a glimpse of what the agency's top administrator thinks about the war on drugs.

Extremely detailed images and no-touch fingerprint readers

Consider these two bits of technology news in light of one another:

Occupy Boston activists denied entry to Canada for political reasons?

On June 21, 2012, a number of Occupy Boston activists were denied entry to Canada. One of the activists wrote the following tweets after being turned away from the border: