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Wednesday February 13th, 2013
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TSA breaks top cellist's bow
posted 02/13/2013, 2:01 PM (The Strad)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A rare Heinrich Knopf bow belonging to Alban Gerhardt was damaged by security officers as he entered the US. In what the cellist called ‘an act of brutal and careless behaviour’, the bow stick (left) was snapped in two, over the bridge of the cello, by air security staff at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, as they examined the case’s contents.... (more) |
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Tuesday February 12th, 2013
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Monday February 11th, 2013
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Friday February 8th, 2013
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Florida City Caught Issuing 1645 Camera Tickets On Shortened Yellow
posted 02/08/2013, 3:51 AM (TheNewspaper)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A tenth of a second can make a big difference. In St. Petersburg, Florida, the yellow time at intersections was shortened by fractions of a second for thousands of drivers, enabling the red light camera program to generate an extra $259,910 in revenue in 13 months. To the unaided eye, the difference between a 4.3 second yellow and a 4.2 second yellow is too brief to be perceived, but it was enough to boost the number of citations issued by five percent.
The short-changing would ha... (more) |
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Thursday February 7th, 2013
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Wednesday February 6th, 2013
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Tuesday February 5th, 2013
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RIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown
posted 02/05/2013, 4:10 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
From humble beginnings in 2011, last year the RIAA amped up its efforts to have allegedly infringing URLs removed from Google’s public indexes. Fast forward to today and the RIAA is about to hit a historic milestone. During the next few hours the music industry group will issue orders to the world’s largest search engine to take down the 10,000,000th URL on its behalf.... (more) |
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Monday February 4th, 2013
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Thursday January 31st, 2013
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Five-Year-Old Faces Suspension After Building Lego Gun
posted 01/31/2013, 4:42 AM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A five-year-old boy was threatened with suspension by school officials in Massachusetts after he built a small toy gun out of lego bricks and started to play-shoot his classmates.
Joseph Cardosa was given a written warning by officials at Hyannis West Elementary School, Cape Cod, when he fashioned the crude toy in an after-school activity program.
The boy was told that if he commits the crime a second time he will be suspended for two weeks.
Card... (more) |
CBS and CNET Protest Looming BitTorrent Client Ban
posted 01/31/2013, 4:39 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
CBS and CNET have asked a Californian federal court not to grant a ban on the distribution of file-sharing software through Download.com. They responded to a request for a preliminary injunction from a coalition of artists and billionaire Alki David who claim that CBS induces piracy. According to the media conglomerate this is not the case, and CBS argues that there are many non-infringing uses for BitTorrent.... (more) |
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Tuesday January 29th, 2013
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Father of terror suspect says FBI brainwashed son
posted 01/29/2013, 5:04 AM (Associated Press)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The father of an Oregon terrorism suspect testified Monday that his then-teenage son was suffering from an identity crisis and enduring a troubled home life when the FBI brainwashed him.
Osman Barre, the father of Somali-American terrorism suspect Mohamed Mohamud, said he was concerned for his son's safety when he contacted the FBI in 2009.... (more) |
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Monday January 28th, 2013
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Friday January 25th, 2013
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Homeland Security's Napolitano invokes 9/11 to push for CISPA 2.0
posted 01/25/2013, 5:28 PM (RT)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In an attempt to scare the public with a looming cyber attack on US infrastructure, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is once again pushing Congress to pass legislation allowing the government to have greater control over the Internet.
Napolitano issued the warnings Thursday, claiming that inaction could result in a “cyber 9/11” attack that could knock out water, electricity and gas, causing destruction similar to that left behind by Hurricane Sandy.... (more) |
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Thursday January 24th, 2013
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LAPD Spied on 21 Using StingRay Anti-Terrorism Tool
posted 01/24/2013, 3:20 PM (LA Weekly)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A secretive cellphone spy device known as StingRay, intended to fight terrorism, was used in far more routine LAPD criminal investigations 21 times in a four-month period during 2012, apparently without the courts' knowledge that the technology probes the lives of non-suspects who happen to be in the same neighborhood as suspected terrorists.... (more) |
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Wednesday January 23rd, 2013
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Tuesday January 22nd, 2013
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Monday January 21st, 2013
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Mesa police tout mobile fingerprint scanners
posted 01/21/2013, 2:58 PM (AZ Central)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
As Mesa police officers talked last week about their newest whiz-bang technology, Mayor Scott Smith couldn’t help thinking about an old movie.
“It reminds me of the time I saw a girl passed out in an alleyway, and the police came and did a retina scan” to figure out who she was, he said. “Oh, wait — that was ‘Back to the Future II.’ ”
The cops weren’t demonstrating retina scans during Thursday’s City Council study session. They were demonstrating fingerprint scans —... (more) |
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Thursday January 17th, 2013
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Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?
posted 01/17/2013, 1:55 PM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 A case that began with reports of suspicious activity in northeast Wisconsin forest land last spring may be headed for the US Supreme Court. That's because a US district court judge ruled in the case last fall that it was okay for the DEA to enter the rural property without a warrant and install surveillance cameras that were used to help convict five members of a family on charges they were growing marijuana.
The ruling last October came in a motion to suppress the evidence o... (more) |
Math Teacher Convicted for Linking to Pirated Answer Sheets
posted 01/17/2013, 1:54 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A Dutch teacher has been convicted for linking to pirated copies of math answer sheets stored on file-storage sites. The Amsterdam court ordered the teacher to remove the hyperlinks from his personal website and pay the litigation costs. According to the verdict the teacher facilitated students’ copyright infringements, this despite the fact that downloading for personal use is legal in the Netherlands.... (more) |
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Wednesday January 16th, 2013
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Copyright "Strike" Systems Are Modern Witch Trials
posted 01/16/2013, 4:35 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A takedown of a YouTube video that has been held as a model of fair use prompted widespread outrage last week. The video, Buffy vs Edward, was eventually reinstated and the claims dropped, but that’s not the end of the discussion. The process used, like most ‘x strike’ copyright programs, relies on good faith from the claimant, but what happens when there is none?... (more) |
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Tuesday January 15th, 2013
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Norway Faces Site Blocking Measures in Anti-Filesharing Bill
posted 01/15/2013, 10:05 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In common with many others around the world, the government of Norway see sites like The Pirate Bay as particularly responsible for the growth of file-sharing online but have had little success in stopping their activities. Following failed attempts by rightsholders to have the site censored by ISPs, this month the government will reveal its new proposals to tackle the problem. They are widely expected to include changes to copyright law to allow sites to be blocked, with The Pirate Bay at the t... (more) |
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Monday January 14th, 2013
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Drones could soon be flying in Orange County skies
posted 01/14/2013, 10:36 AM (OrlandoSentinel.com)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is experimenting with two surveillance drones that it hopes to turn loose over Metro Orlando skies this summer.
Sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson would not reveal specific uses for the drones, larger versions of which are known for flying over tribal regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to drop bombs on suspected terrorists.
But Williamson did say Orange's remote-controlled planes would not be armed. The agency still needs approva... (more) |
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Saturday January 12th, 2013
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European Newspapers Seek Royalties for Linking and Citing to News Content
posted 01/12/2013, 12:57 PM (EFF.org)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Expanding copyright to allow rent seeking for linking would break the fabric of the Internet. Links and citations to articles do not infringe copyright, as links do not copy, distribute, or perform any copyrighted work. Despite some desperate assertions of the contrary, copyright protection of links is not enshrined in law. Newspapers, however, are pushing for legislation to support this dangerous claim, regardless of the implications it would have for free speech.
The Internet h... (more) |
Verizon's "Six Strikes" Anti-Piracy Measures Unveiled
posted 01/12/2013, 12:56 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
During the coming weeks the controversial "six-strikes" anti-piracy system will kick off in the U.S. While none of the participating ISPs have officially announced how they will handle repeat infringers, TorrentFreak has obtained a copy of Verizon’s full policy. Among other things, offenders will have to watch a video about the consequences of online piracy, before their speeds are reduced to 256kbps. Also worth mentioning is that the copyright alert system will also apply to business customer... (more) |
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Friday January 11th, 2013
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GAO Report Pushes Per-Mile Taxation
posted 01/11/2013, 6:56 AM (TheNewspaper)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) believes lawmakers should tax motorists for every mile they drive. In a report released Tuesday, the congressional watchdog agency suggested GPS surveillance devices or other, less invasive techniques could be used to more than double the amount of money motorists currently pay in federal gas tax fees.
GAO's auditors examined per-mile tax pilot projects in Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Washington to evaluate the benefits and downsides of ... (more) |
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Thursday January 10th, 2013
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Texas Judge Rules Schools Can Force RFID Chips on Students
posted 01/10/2013, 4:51 AM (Activist Post)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In the fall of last year the San Antonio Northside School District in Texas announced that they would track students with RFID (radio frequency identification) chips in their student badges.
One student, sophomore Andrea Hernandez, was suspended for refusing to wear the tracking device and took the matter to court.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled in favor of the school district claiming they have the right to expel Hernandez for refusing to abi... (more) |
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Wednesday January 9th, 2013
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Developer Of Bookmaking Software Gets Full Kim Dotcom Treatment For 'Promoting Gambling'
posted 01/09/2013, 6:10 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The government's war on online gambling is really ridiculous in a variety of ways. Initially, it was driven by a weird mix of moralist groups, backed by offline casinos who didn't want the competition -- all leading to a bill that effectively (through convoluted means) banned online gambling as a part of a law to protect our ports. The casinos are now regretting their initial support for this law, because they want to get into the online gambling world themselves. But the law is in pl... (more) |
Censoring Pirate Sites Doesn't Work, Researchers Find
posted 01/09/2013, 6:10 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A new study released by researchers from Boston’s Northeastern University shows that censoring “pirate” sites by blocking or seizing their domains is ineffective. The researchers looked at the availability of various pirated media on file-hosting sites and found that uploaders post more new content than copyright holders can take down. A better solution, according to the researchers, is to block the money streams that flow to these sites.... (more) |
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Tuesday January 8th, 2013
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Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted File Sharer
posted 01/08/2013, 3:16 AM (Wired)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation’s longest sentence in a file-sharing case.
The sentence handed to Jeramiah Perkins, 40, of Portsmouth, Virginia, surpassed one of largest file-sharing terms handed to IMAGiNE co-defendant Gregory A. Cherwonik, 53, of New York, who received 40 months in November for his role in the operation.... (more) |
The Meaning of GPS
posted 01/07/2013, 12:39 AM (Jeffrey Tucker)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 I am one of those people who has a seriously deficient sense of direction. In other words, I feel lost most of the time. It’s been this way since I was very young. My parents would take me camping. As soon as I walked out of eyesight of the tent, I was lost and they had to come find me.
As I grew older, the problem never improved. In school, I could never find classrooms or even the buildings. I had to follow people I knew were in the same class. I would leave stores and turn the ... (more) |
Music Biz Wants To Block Pirate Bay... Plus 260 Additional Sites
posted 01/07/2013, 12:37 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
At the end of this month a hearing will take place to help decide the fate of The Pirate Bay in Ireland. The major labels want the site blocked by a handful of ISPs that are at the moment digging in their heels and refusing to comply. The issue is particularly important, and not only for The Pirate Bay and its users. The labels have indicated to the court that they actually want more than one site blocked – in fact they have a list of 260 others.... (more) |
The Death of Privacy
posted 01/07/2013, 12:37 AM (The Freeman)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The history of colonial America is replete with incidents of abominable abuse of power by agents of the Crown. One of the most effective means of oppressing the colonies was through writs of assistance, commonly known as general warrants, which gave British officials carte blanche arbitrarily to invade private homes and businesses in search of contraband and to seize property with absolute impunity. ... (more) |
Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
posted 01/04/2013, 6:27 AM (Wired)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because authorities say his software was used by others for illegal betting in that state.... (more) |
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Monday December 31st, 2012
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Thursday December 27th, 2012
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Open Source Intelligence and Crime Prevention
posted 12/27/2012, 5:24 PM (ACLU.org)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Buried on page A25 of Thursday’s New York Times is a tiny story on what’s likely to become a big problem after the recent horrific mass shooting. According to the report, top intelligence officials in the New York City Police Department met on Thursday to explore ways to identify “deranged” shooters before any attack. One of these tactics would involve “creating an algorithm” to identify keywords in online public sources indicative of an impending incident. In other words, they seek to build an ... (more) |
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