Can democracy exist in a surveillance society?
Eben Moglen, professor at Columbia Law School, has published video and text from his not-to-be-missed lecture, 'Snowden and the Future', given in two parts during October 2013 at Columbia.
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Mysterious plastic bag shrouded surveillance cameras puzzle onlookers
This morning at Boston's South Station I saw surveillance cameras covered up with plastic bags. Are these new cameras that have yet to be fully unwrapped? Or did someone play a funny prank on the surveillance state? Perhaps it's an art project?
Whatever the explanation, I prefer it to the naked camera.
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Was the government hiding FISA related illegal surveillance from criminal defendants way back in 2004?
Newly released documents pertaining to the FBI’s surveillance of the editors of an anti-war news site shed new light on how the government has long kept the existence of information derived from foreign intelligence surveillance secret from criminal defendants.
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Whoever is elected Mayor of Boston today has an opportunity to stem the rising tide of police militarization
The next mayor of the City of Boston, who will be elected to office today, has the opportunity to stem the rising tide of an increasingly militarized police force. He should seize it.
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How times have changed: Eric Schmidt on privacy in 2009 and today
My how Edward Snowden has changed things.
Back in 2009, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told CNBC that "if you are doing something you don't want anybody to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer.
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West Philly house creates spooky surveillance themed ‘haunted porch of doom’ for Halloween
Activist and educator Pete Tridish and friends made a spooky, surveillance and government-repression themed haunted porch for the West Philly community this Halloween. It features drones that kill people the government says are terrorists, the ghost of Steve Jobs (he wants your data), a "phishing scheme", and Total Information Awareness.
Tridish writes:
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How about it, Massachusetts?
by Gavi Wolfe, Legislative Counsel, ACLU of Massachusetts
Front page, above the fold, the New York Times tells it like it is with this headline:
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