UPDATE: The NYPD apologizes for showing racist film to officers
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The silent guest at the State of the Union
Last night, President Obama book ended his State of the Union address by praising the US military. The beginning of the speech:
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Google’s new privacy policy is creepy
Google announced today that a new privacy policy will take effect on March 1, 2012. The policy will govern all of Google's seemingly zillions of services and products. Kudos to Google for consolidating their policies into one, and for making it reasonably easy for ordinary people to understand. But let's not kid ourselves: there's some scary stuff in it.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules GPS tracking requires warrant in US v. Jones
In a breathtakingly important decision we've anticipated for months, the Supreme Court today decided, in a unanimous ruling, that the government needs a warrant before placing a GPS tracking device on a car. A number of lower courts had disagreed on the question, raising the profile of the US v. Jones case at the nation's highest court.
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What happened to the “Land of the Free”?
In our fear-ridden society, the “Land of the Free” has gone the way of the “Home of the Brave,” according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.
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Thursday technology links round-up
- Guys, gals and everyone else: cover your webcam when you aren't using it, pretty please? There are many creeps out there, and government spooks, who can use tricky software to hack into your webcam and look at you in your private zones. Just do it. A piece of post-it note cut up works just fine, as you can see:
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Occupy and Tea Party activists, lookout! Your anger with the government is suspect.
Occupiers and Tea Partiers alike should take note. The government thinks your upset could be a terrorism indicator.
