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TSA Considering Banning Photography Of Checkpoints
Carlos Miller writes on Pixiq: The Transportation Security Administration is considering changing its policy on photographing security checkpoints after several videos depicting questionable incidents...
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New Apple Technology Stops iPhones From Filming Live Events
F@ck you, Apple (had to get that out of my system). Fox News reports: CUPERTINO, Calif. — Fans at concerts and sports games may soon be stopped from using their iPhones to film the action —as a result...
View ArticleRochester Police Ticket Supporters of Woman Who Taped Police From Her Own...
The video below is from a Rochester, New York, neighborhood meeting in support of Emily Good, the woman arrested for videotaping a traffic stop from her front yard. So Rochester police sent four squad...
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Smile! Get Ready for Tiny Police Uniform Cameras
Via NPR: The next time you talk to a police officer, you might find yourself staring into a lens. Companies such as Taser and Vievu are making small, durable cameras designed to be worn on police...
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NYPD Teams With Microsoft To Launch Panoptic ‘Domestic Awareness System’
Is the NYPD and Microsoft together too much of a good thing? Russia Today on the forthcoming new model of urban centralized surveillance: The NYPD is teaming up with Microsoft to track action across...
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On How Computers See Race
Does technology covertly holds the biases of its creators? Alexis Stevens in Cluster Magazine writes about an unintended dimension of of facial-recognition-based surveillance software: “HP Computers...
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On Deploying Cameras To Watch Other Cameras
In what seems as if it could become a neverending paradox, Business Insider on a locality in Maryland in which it has become necessary to outfit the city with a network of surveillance cameras to...
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An Urban Surveillance Map Of Vancouver
The Vancouver Public Space Network mapped CCTV locations in the metropolitan core, revealing the geography of surveillance: The preliminary map that we created indicates the places where surveillance...
View ArticleA Case Of Asserting Your Rights To Film
Ok, so we highly recommend that you do not actually do what you’ve seen in this video. It’s best to be calm, cool, collected and talk in a normal tone when addressing police officers. This footage was...
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Game Of Surveillance Camera Destruction Hits The United States
The previously discussed trend of making a game out of breaking as many public surveillance cameras as possible, known as Camover, appears to have crossed the Atlantic, with a team calling themselves...
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Should the State Seize Your Firearms if You’re On Meds?
Picture: RAMA (CC) The attorney for a New York State man claims his client’s firearms license was revoked after the state learned he was on an anti-anxiety medication. Is this a sign of future things...
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Police Kill Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants
I feel safer now, don’t you? Via Information Liberation: A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she...
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Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors
Another creamy morsel from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The post Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors appeared first on disinformation.
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Accepting Alternate Forms Of Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom
Our inability to perceive animal intelligence revealed the limits of our own. Via the Wall Street Journal, Frans de Waal writes: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task....
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When Astronauts Weep
The Canadian Space Agency addresses what happens when astronauts cry in zero gravity. The post When Astronauts Weep appeared first on disinformation.
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The 1969 Science Fiction Novel Which Eerily Predicted Today
John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, written more than forty years ago but set in an imagined year 2010 in which ever more power is concentrated in the hands of a few global corporations, is eerily...
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Sting Asked About President’s Drone Strikes
At a charity event in Sting’s honor, Luke Rudkowski asked Sting about this feelings on Obama’s drone strikes. Sting has told reporters in the past that he believes Obama was “sent from God” to fix the...
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Eight Cures That Did More Harm Than Good
Arallyn Primm writes at Mental Floss: No one likes to be sick or suffering. Humans have tried to fight against disease and affliction since we could first comprehend “Hey, I ate that root, and now I...
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London Throws Party Celebrating Death Of Margaret Thatcher
Reuters reports that only “hundreds” of people turned up for “the party of a lifetime” celebrating the death of reviled (and occasionally revered) former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London...
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Obama’s Drone Strikes Aren’t Killing Who You Think They Are
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