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Screenshot from Signal app for iPhone, enabling secure SMS and phone calls.
Screenshot from Signal app for iPhone, enabling secure SMS and phone calls.
The police response to a well publicized Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America in December should serve as a jarring wake up call to people who care about the First Amendment and political rights in the United States.
Apparently top cop Bill Bratton thinks the NYPD's extensive surveillance, harassment, and brutalization of protesters have insufficiently chilled dissident speech in New York City. So he's bringing in machine guns to finish the job. Hundreds of them.
Photo: Gabe Camacho Cops in the Commonwealth The pitfalls of militarized, federalized policing by Nancy Murray Table of Contents I. Introduction Twenty-first century ‘homeland security’ policing took over Watertown’s streets during the hunt for those responsible for the heinous attack on the...
Help! What is this thing? Spotted at the Black Lives Matter protest today in Boston, on a truck with commercial plates. I saw the same piece of technology at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York in 2012, and wrote about it here. I'm still not clear on what, exactly, it's for.
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Before Watergate, WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, There was Media, Pennsylvania
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