License plate tracking corporation asks cops to stay mum on their use of controversial surveillance tool
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Text and call your friends all over the world, securely and for free
Hooray! Whisper Systems' Signal app for iPhone has been updated to include encrypted text services. -
How the ‘net neutrality’ vote might help advance consumer privacy online
Last week's FCC vote to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II of federal communications law gives the regulatory body more power to ensure companies like Comcast and AT&T don't censor, slow down, or charge a premium for the delivery of certain internet content. The net neutrality victory substantially advances the First Amendment in the digital age.
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FBI employee faced retaliation after blowing the whistle inside Bureau about agents stealing items from Ground Zero
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on whistleblower retaliation complaints at the FBI. The results are pretty alarming.
From the executive summary:
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FBI director attempts to use marathon bombing to justify nationwide phone dragnet, ignoring DOJ claims and basic facts
Former FBI director Robert Mueller told an American Bar Association breakfast today that the government's dragnet collection of US phone records assisted in the Boston marathon bombing investigation. The Intercept reports:
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Pittsburgh police allegedly keep photo book of methadone clinic patients
According to patients and their advocates, police departments throughout the country routinely station officers outside of methadone clinics and harass patients going in and out, sometimes arresting them on dubious drug related charges often involving informants. John Knefel reports on the problem for Buzzfeed, and includes this disturbing detail:
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[Event] The Tsarnaev Trial: The Federal Death Penalty in Abolitionist Massachusetts
Hear from legal experts on the peculiar circumstance of the death penalty prosecution in US v. Tsarnaev, which is taking place in Massachusetts, a state that does not permit state executions.
WHERE: Suffolk Law School
WHEN: March 10, 2015 | 5:30 PM
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News round-up: Police torture in Chicago, DOJ threats to prosecute unpopular speech, and high tech surveillance
Some stories you shouldn't miss today:
An Assistant Attorney General told a DC audience yesterday that the DOJ would potentially prosecute people for 'speech crimes' if they propagandize on social media in support of ISIS. Shane Harris with the scoop:
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Edward Snowden on civil disobedience and the rule of law
Ed Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald are doing a Reddit AMA. Snowden just wrote this in response to a question about how to make spying a central campaign issue in the 2016 presidential bid.
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