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Policing Robots to Hit The Streets in California
The robots might one day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of crime-fighting machinery it hopes to keep us safe. Knightscope’s K5 security bots...
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Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff to Report Customers for Too Many Condoms
Screen capture from the film The Lives of Others, based on the lives of citizens monitored by the Stasi in Communist East Germany. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to pour time...
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FBI Ran Website Serving Thousands of Child Porn Images
WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described as one of the Internet’s largest child pornography websites, allowing users to download thousands of illicit images and...
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License Plate Readers Are Turning Police Into Mobile Debt Collectors And Data...
Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to law enforcement agencies in Texas: a whole suite of automated license plate...
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The FBI and NYPD Interrogated Me for Simply Reading an Article About ISIS
On Thursday, December 10th, 2015, two NYPD detectives interrogated me in the hallway of my apartment building under the suspicion that I supported the Islamic State. I let the FBI’s Joint Terrorism...
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Apple Stands up to FBI, Writes Letter to Customers About Importance of...
by Virgil Vaduva For all the criticism Apple receives from users about its products, design or pricing, there is one thing that Apple should be commended for, namely the focus on security of their...
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VIDEO: Edward Snowden Speaks Live at Liberty Forum, Talk Surveillance And...
On February 20, 2016, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed more than 500 attendees at the Free State Project’s 9th annual NH Liberty Forum in Manchester, NH. People gathered from across the...
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Ohio Driver Arrested For Empty Hidden Car Compartment
Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession. Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a...
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Obama: Police Must Have Backdoors Into Smartphones
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a “passionate” case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist...
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Denver Cops Abused Confidential Databases To Get Dates, Stalk Women
Denver Police officers caught using a confidential database for personal reasons should face stiffer penalties, the city’s independent monitor argued in a reportreleased Tuesday. The report, which...
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Makers of Cell 411 Mobile App Vow to Protect RNC Demonstrators From Police Abuse
It turns out that Cell 411 Inc., the makers behind the emergency response app Cell 411 are concerned that demonstrators at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland may be assaulted and abused...
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EU to Create Bitcoin Registry to Track Users’ Identities And Wallets, Fight...
The European Commission is proposing the creation of a database that will hold information on those using virtual currencies and that will record data on the users’ real-world identity, along with all...
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West Virginia Supreme Court Expands DUI To Private Property
West Virginians can be charged with drunk driving on their own private land, even if they represent no danger to others. The state Supreme Court of Appeals laid down this new precedent last month,...
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This Mobile App Helps You Fight The U.S. Police State
A small startup that has been around for less than a year has created a free mobile app aimed at helping Americans and people all over the world resist the police state. The app, called Cell 411 (or...
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Why Google’s New AI Censorship Platform Should Terrify You
by Virgil Vaduva Today Google proudly touted the release of Perspective, an AI-backed platform an API which will allow content publishers to in essence censor user input such as comments, notes and...
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This Smartphone App Helps Undocumented Immigrants With ICE Raids
A smartphone app which has been on our radar screen for the past year is now available in Spanish with new features and to a whole new audience: undocumented immigrants who may need help before,...
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VIDEO: Edward Snowden Speaks Live at Liberty Forum, Talk Surveillance And...
On February 20, 2016, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed more than 500 attendees at the Free State Project’s 9th annual NH Liberty Forum in Manchester, NH. People gathered from across the...
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Ohio Driver Arrested For Empty Hidden Car Compartment
Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession. Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a...
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Obama: Police Must Have Backdoors Into Smartphones
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a “passionate” case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist...
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Denver Cops Abused Confidential Databases To Get Dates, Stalk Women
Denver Police officers caught using a confidential database for personal reasons should face stiffer penalties, the city’s independent monitor argued in a reportreleased Tuesday. The report, which...
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