“There are numerous reasons why police tend to focus on certain types of law enforcement. Not all of them originate with the police agencies themselves.”
Read more: https://mises.org/blog/why-police-prefer-drug-raids-over-investigating-violent-crimes
“Amnesty International just released a report that heavily implicates the United States in a number of criminal acts in Mosul, Iraq.”
Read more: http://theantimedia.org/white-house-war-crimes-office-closing-down/
“She’d called 911 earlier that night to report a possible assault behind her house. When she approached the police who responded to her call, she was shot and killed through the driver’s side door.”
Read more: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a10317413/justine-damond-minneapolis-shooting/
“The new measures will affect 105 countries hosting approximately 280 airports, 180 airlines, and about 2,100 daily flights carrying 325,000 US-bound passengers. DHS already has in place a policy that bars electronic devices larger than a cell phone from Turkey and several Middle Eastern airports. The UK has a similar policy, affecting airports in six countries.”
“A unanimous Court declared that police should not be held liable for recklessly firing 15 times into a shack where a homeless couple—Angel and Jennifer Mendez—was sleeping.”
“The Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would ‘deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online’ and that technology firms were not currently doing enough. The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – dubbed the ‘Snooper’s Charter‘ – which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.”
“Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online. The government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online. The plans will allow Britain to become ‘the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet’, the manifesto claims. It comes just soon after the Investigatory Powers Act came into law. That legislation allowed the government to force internet companies to keep records on their customers’ browsing histories, as well as giving ministers the power to break apps like WhatsApp so that messages can be read.”
“The 6,700 page document excoriated US torture policies after 9/11, and noted that not a single incident of a terrorist attack had been foiled because of the torture.”
Read more: http://news.antiwar.com/2017/06/02/trump-moves-to-keep-cia-torture-report-secret/
“Increasingly, people are being asked to turn over and unlock their phones at the border, and doing that can expose a huge amount of data. Add in an app like 1Password — a central repository for a ton of private data — and it’s easy to see why someone would be worried about having to hand over their phone.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681990/1password-travel-mode-feature-added-security
“A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a regulation requiring the public to register drones. The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the Federal Aviation Administration did not have the authority to regulate so-called ‘model aircraft.’ If it stands, the decision (PDF) means that the public does not have to abide by the FAA requirement established in 2015. To legally fly a drone, hobbyists are currently required to pay a $5 fee and dole out their name, home address, and e-mail address. Registration was required to be updated every three years. Maximum penalties for failing to comply included three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.”