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Chris Soghoian yesterday announced that he will join the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project as Principal Technology and Senior Policy Analyst. The organization is lucky to have him!
It's now pretty well established: if your city plays host to a major "National Special Security Event" like a major party convention or global summit, your police department will probably gain broad new powers to restrict or intimidate dissent and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of
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Let’s go back to school for a minute. Remember learning that the United States had three separate branches of government and a system of checks and balances to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful?
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Freud's sofa, image courtesy Konstantin Binder
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On October 1, 2011 the NYPD arrested 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge. Three days later many of those arrested filed a lawsuit contending that police had tricked them onto the bridge only to trap and arrest them, a tactic called 'kettling'. Among protesters arrested that day was Malcolm Harris, the activist who is now fighting a NYC prosecutor's subpoena to Twitter for account information likely connected to his 10/1/11 disorderly conduct charge.
Apparently the Department of Homeland security can't figure out how to crack CryptoCat, a free, encrypted web chat service. The programmer and digital freedom activist who designed it, Nadim Kobeissi, wrote the following tweets today describing his experience getting detained and interrogated by DHS agents at the border:
Snatch and grabs on video
Terror Tuesday: What is left of our Constitutional system?
Drones crash. A lot.
Mental health care at risk due to secret Patriot Act interpretation
War and security journalism ‘aiding the enemy’?
Brooklyn Bridge suit will go forward
Programmer and activist interrogated at the border
