DC, lookout: license plate readers are casting a wide net and tracking your movements

Notches in Their Belt

20,000 US troops coming home to prepare for terror attack or ‘civil unrest’

Over the past few months, we've been hearing lots of 'chatter' suggesting that the US military is moving beyond policy paper, doomsday planning scenarios forecasting civil unrest and has started to implement troop movements based on these apocalyptic scenarios.

Evidence: non-profit policing organization orchestrating nationwide anti-occupy crackdown

Demonstrators and press nationwide have been speculating for weeks about federal involvement in police crackdowns nationwide.

UC Davis police violent crackdown on peaceful protesters last night

Many of you have likely seen this first video showing a truly horrifying spectacle: a row of students, heads tucked into their chests, sitting down on the ground, are sprayed in the face by a man protesters have identified as UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike. He sprays the students as if he is watering his garden, moving up and down the row spraying directly at them from only a few feet away.

Militarized police aiming sophisticated tools at non-violent #occupy movement

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#OccupyMap enables #ows participants to surveil police actions, communicate rapid developments

Some pretty creative coders created a program enabling smartphone users to text updates about police movements, break away demonstrations, medical crises and more to a constantly-updated map: #OccupyMap. 

Livestream of OWS

Thursday technology links round-up

This week's technology round-up is a doozy. You've been warned.

• First, a video on third party tracking. It's pretty cool and involves zombies. Watch it if you have 45 min.

BREAKING: ACLUm, NLG file suit to protect Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square

The ACLU of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild, together with cooperating attorney Howard Cooper from the law firm Todd & Weld, have filed suit to preemptively prevent the kind of police raid that we've witnessed in Portland, OR, Oakland, CA, and New York City this week from happening at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square.