Adult Photography Record-Keeping and Inspection Law Threatens Free Speech EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have joined forces to file an amicus brief in a long-running challenge to two criminal statutes that unconstitutionally limit the free expression of millions of adults who use the Internet and other electronic forms of communication. These statutes bring the threat of criminal sanctions for private, lawful speech and also violate important privacy rights, including both the First and the Fou... (more)
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US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet'An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it. A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government service ... (more)
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State Dept Launches 'Free the Press' Campaign Same Day DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Jail ReporterThe US State Department announced the launch of its third annual "Free the Press" campaign today, which will purportedly highlight "journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise oppressed because of their reporting." A noble mission for sure. But maybe they should kick off the campaign by criticizing their own Justice Department, which, on the very same day, has asked the Supreme Court to h... (more)
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Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource SurveillanceThe LAPD wants you, Joe Citizen, to help it out with its surveillance. It has enlisted the help of a crowdsourcing tool called LEEDIR to collect photos and recordings from everyday people who may have additional footage of natural disasters or civil unrest that could help out both emergency responders and cops looking to put a few more demonstrators in jail. In today's announcement, earthquakes, terrorist ... (more)
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TSA Ejects Mute, Disabled Woman From Flight Because She Couldn't SpeakLOS ANGELES, CA – Federal checkpoint agents refused to let a woman board her flight when they interpreted her disabilities and inability to speak as a sign of terrorism.
Sherry Wright and her sister Heidi were scheduled to fly from Los Angeles International Airport to Phoenix. Things started to go badly for the pair when TSA agents asked to see their papers.
Heidi, 58, had a driver’s license that was expired. This was because she ... (more)
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NSA Exploited Heartbleed for Own UseNot only did the NSA know about the Heartbleed internet bug—found to have exposed the sensitive information of countless web users—but they exploited it for their own intelligence gathering purposes for years, sources charge.
Bloomberg News reported late Friday that the agency found Heartbleed shortly after its introduction in early 2012, according to a p... (more)
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An NSA 'Reform Bill' of the Intelligence Community, Written by the Intelligence Community, and for the Intelligence CommunityRepresentatives Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced HR 4291, the FISA Transparency and Modernization Act (.pdf), to end the collection of all Americans' calling records using Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Both have vehemently defended the program since June, an... (more)
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Britain to Jail Parents Who Don't Love Their Children EnoughBritish government will determine what is an acceptable degree of love and affection. Photo: Dorothea Lange, the United States Library of Congress
Not loving a child to the degree mandated by a new standard established by the British state will result in a prison term for parents, according to The Telegraph.
Under a new "Cinder... (more)
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Clapper Confesses: NSA Searching Americans' Calls and EmailsDespite professions by intelligence officials that "backdoor" searches have been strictly limited to foreign individuals, reporting Tuesday has revealed that the NSA has also conducted warrantless searches of Americans' calls and emails.
In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Friday, the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged,
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The Rebranding Of SOPA: Now Called 'Notice And Staydown'On Thursday morning, the House Judiciary Committee held its latest in a long series of hearings concerning potential copyright reform -- sometimes referred to as "the Next Great Copyright Act" after the Copyright Office kicked off the process with a talk on that topic (I'd quibble with the word "great" in there given how things are going so far). The latest hearing focused on Section 512 of the DMCA, better known as the "notice and takedown" provisions, or, more broadly, as the "safe harbor... (more)
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