Mom jailed for allowing kids to play outside

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“A stay-at-home mom from La Porte has filed a lawsuit against the city’s police department, an unknown officer and one of her neighbors. Tammy Cooper said she was wrongly accused of endangering her children and was even forced to spend the night in jail, all because she let her kids play outside. She said her children, ages 9 and 6, were riding their motorized scooters in the cul-de-sac where they live while she watched from a lawn chair in her front yard just a few feet away.”

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Mom-sues-local-police-over-arrest/-/1735978/16528610/-/tsvmg6/-/index.html

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Chicago Speed Cameras to Photograph Children?

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“‘All respondents must be able to determine and document when children are present in cases when the school zone speed limit is enforced. This can be through a combination of automated recognition and/or human review. The respondent must identify the parameters, capabilities and distances for which the proposed camera system can produce enforceable images of the presence of pedestrian children.’ The city set a goal of photographing children who appear within 250 feet of the photo enforcement system in all directions.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/38/3895.asp

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“Six strikes” Internet warning system will come to US this year

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“Even as France looks set to scrap its three-strikes antipiracy scheme known as HADOPI, US Internet providers are inching forward with their milder ‘six strikes’ program. But the head of that effort says the system is about education, and it is coming by the end of the year. Last year, the newly formed Center for Copyright Information (CCI), along with major ISPs across the US and representatives from the recording and film industries, agreed to come up with a six-stage warning scheme that would progressively impose warnings—and eventually penalties—on alleged online copyright infringers.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/six-strikes-internet-warning-system-really-truly-coming-to-us-this-year/

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“Zero Tolerance” Hits Bottom — And Starts to Dig

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“More than 4,000 inmates of San Antonio’s government schools have been conscripted into a pilot program involving mandatory tracking with ID tags containing embedded RFID computer chips. The so-called ‘Student Locator Pilot’ badges must be worn at all times, and will be monitored through a system of undetectable sensors. The RFID technology has inspired considerable opposition among people jealous of their privacy. The public school system, however, offers an ideal environment in which to test elements of this system using a captive population.”

http://prolibertate.us/index.php/zero-tolerance-hits-bottom-and?blog=7

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Court restores Obama’s indefinite detention power

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“A federal appeals court has temporarily frozen a lower court’s order that blocked the Obama administration from arresting and imprisoning American citizens without evidence or trial. The stay restores the Obama administration’s authority to detain anyone it chooses on allegations that they’re connected to terrorism. A full appeal hearing before the Second Circuit is set for Sept. 28.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/court-restores-obamas-indefinite-detention-power/

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General Robotics’ Ferret under-vehicle robot-camera deployed at RNC

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“The Secret Service used the robotic camera for under-vehicle scanning of buses that transported delegates to the convention from nearby parking lots. As the buses arrived, they were checked by a large mobile X-ray system called a Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS), after which they proceeded to a different location where the canines would sniff them. If a dog detects something, it is trained to sit, signaling security personnel that further investigation is needed. At this point, the Ferret would be deployed to scan underneath the bus.”

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/27148?c=state_local_security

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New Public Safety Broadband Network: Tool For A Domestic Secret Police?

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“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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Undercover cops secretly use smartphones, face recognition to spy on crowds

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“A Florida intelligence officer admitted that undercover police were mingling with the public, using their smartphones to take videos and photos to spy on ‘suspicious’ citizens. Then the undetected cops could determine a person’s name by checking the image against a facial recognition database. That is precisely what happened at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. this surveillance network ‘was part of an effort to eventually develop a similar $7 billion National Public Safety Broadband Network for everyday use across the country.'”

http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21010/undercover-cops-secretly-use-smartphones-face-recognition-spy-crowds

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Arrests Near Stock Exchange Top 150 on Occupy Wall St. Anniversary

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“A line of officers pushed away a large crowd of people, including news photographers. One officer repeatedly shoved news photographers with a baton, and a police lieutenant shouted at one point that no more photographs would be permitted, adding, ‘That’s over.’ Organizers said they had planned the protest to show that the Occupy movement still had vitality and to express continuing frustration with the economic environment.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/protests-near-stock-exchange-on-occupy-wall-st-anniversary/

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British royals to lodge criminal complaint over Kate Middleton topless photos

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[No sense of irony for the Orwellian English political class…] “Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine are to lodge a criminal complaint in France over the taking and publishing of topless photographs which appeared in a French magazine, a palace spokeswoman said Sunday. ‘The complaint concerns the taking of photographs of the The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge whilst on holiday and the publication of those photographs in breach of their privacy,’ she said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/16/british-royals-to-lodge-criminal-complaint-over-kate-middleton-topless-photos/

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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Mom jailed for allowing kids to play outside

Chicago Speed Cameras to Photograph Children?

“Six strikes” Internet warning system will come to US this year

“Zero Tolerance” Hits Bottom — And Starts to Dig

Court restores Obama’s indefinite detention power

General Robotics’ Ferret under-vehicle robot-camera deployed at RNC

New Public Safety Broadband Network: Tool For A Domestic Secret Police?

Undercover cops secretly use smartphones, face recognition to spy on crowds

Arrests Near Stock Exchange Top 150 on Occupy Wall St. Anniversary

British royals to lodge criminal complaint over Kate Middleton topless photos