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Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Free Bradley Manning activist Mike Gogulski discuss data retention and the dangers digital information gathering presents to democracies.
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UPDATE: No wonder the TSA didn't want Schneier's testimony on the record. It's damning.
Hey, did you hear the one about the $300,000 drone belonging to the Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas crashing into the Bearcat armored vehicle belonging to the Sheriff’s SWAT team?
This is no joke. It actually happened early in March turning a test flight photo op at an airfield near Houston.
Can this be real? There is no punishment for police who shoot dead a nearly 70 year-old man in his own home, after his own medical alert device sent the alarm to police that brought them to his door? DemocracyNow! describes what happened to 68 year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, who was killed by police in White Plains, NY back in November.
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Back on November 3, 2010, political activist and computer engineer David House ended his vacation with his girlfriend in Mexico, where they had been fishing and relaxing. House worked for MIT at the time, but he had a brief layover in Chicago before his flight back to Boston.
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Ecological rights activist Tim DeChristopher, who is serving two years in federal prison for bidding in a land sale auction for land he never intended to pay for, has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement at the request of an unnamed Congressperson.
It's finally happened. After scores of FBI entrapment cases in which the organization set up young Muslim men to do illegal things and then slammed them with long prison terms when they complied, it has finally happened: someone said 'no.'