“Journalists and protesters are attempting to use technology such as smartphones (and their always-ready cameras) to protect their rights, while the police are not only trying to curb such uses of photography (as we have noted in all our work on photographers’ rights) but, according to today’s story, are also seeking to use the very same technology to carry out surveillance on those protesters.  This battle over technology is at root a power struggle. Will technology increase the power of the individual, or of the authorities?”

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-national-security/new-public-safety-broadband-network-tool

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