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Pre-Crime Systems Now Actively Monitoring the Internet: “The Computer Algorithm Learns the Pattern and Produces a Prediction”
With revelations that the National Security Agency has collected some 20 trillion phone calls and emails via an expansive nationwide surveillance network, most Americans have already come to the realization that everything they do
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Police Officer Verbally Explodes When Confronting Person Who Knows The Law
This video is actually pretty funny. The driver and passenger are being annoying but they are not doing anything illegal. The cop cajoles the driver into giving up his license, registration and proof of
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Victory For Breast Milk Mom Against TSA Tyranny
Two year battle against government ends in victory for mother who was locked in glass cage Many news stories regarding the security theatre antics of the TSA are often disheartening downbeat tales of the dissolution
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Video: TSA Agents Pat Down 2 & 6 Year Old Children
Infants allegedly targeted because mother’s name was on a watchlist Disturbing new video footage shows TSA agents performing full body pat downs on two infants aged just 2 and 6 years old, illustrating how the
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Torture becomes mainstream in US policy
As Rebecca Gordon notes in her new book, Mainstreaming Torture, polls find greater support in the United States for torture now than when Bush was president. And it's not hard to see why
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
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TSA spent $1 bln on ‘body language’ program
After investing $1 billion in behavior detection techniques and training since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration has little to show for its efforts, the New York Times stated in a new report
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Feinstein’s Bill to Kill Free Speech of Independent Journalists ‘Has Votes’ to Pass Senate
After fending off numerous attacks on the freedom of the internet last year, activists and independent journalists alike are now facing another hurdle that flies in the face of freedom of the press, the
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DHS uses email intercepts to question US citizen about her sex life
At first blush, a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU on behalf of a sociology professor at Indiana University wrongly detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection seems to be about whether CBP
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Airports Install LED Lights That See You Naked
New Jersey airport has recently installed a new type of technology that does the same thing as TSA body scanners. The only thing is, travelers don’t know they’re being scanned as these LED lights
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What to Say If Stopped By a Cop
What do you think of the suggestions above? Do you have information that differs? Image was provided by the American Civil Liberties Union
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White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration will not be releasing any more information about the controversial use of drones to kill American citizens
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CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
The CIA has confirmed that it is obliged to follow a federal law barring the collection of financial information and hacking into government data networks. But neither the agency nor its Senate overseers will say
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane
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Alec Baldwin: TSA ‘A Disgrace’ For Patting Down My Infant Daughter
Actor Alec Baldwin was furious yesterday after the Transportation Security Administration singled his 5-month-old daughter out as a potential terrorist. The 30 Rock star was apparently traveling back to the United States from the Bahamas
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Massive US airships to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance
The US Army plans to deploy two massive airships with powerful surveillance systems over the US state of Maryland to monitor the country’s East Coast round-the-clock, heightening privacy concerns. The airships, known as aerostats, will
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What are my Rights at Various “Checkpoints”?
There are four general types of checkpoints you might encounter: DUI checkpoints, US border checkpoints, drug checkpoints, and TSA checkpoints. In a legal sense, they are not all created equal. So depending on which
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Two-Thirds of Americans Live in the 4th Amendment “Exemption Zone”
Last week, Judge Edward Korman—a Reagan appointee to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York—confirmed that federal authorities can search the electronic devices of any American within 100 miles
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Shock Video: Border Agent Acknowledges Constitution At Checkpoint
A surprising video showing a Boundary Patrol agent recognizing the constitutional right to reject questions has many pleasantly surprised. The short clip starts by showing a number of young individuals driving towards California’s I-8 Westbound
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