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Japan Follows Hawaii With Its Own False Missile Warning

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“Japan’s public broadcaster sent out a false alert warning of a North Korean missile on Tuesday, just three days after Hawaii residents received an erroneous message about an incoming missile.  ‘North Korea appears to have launched a missile … The government urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground,’ the message read, according to a translation from Reuters.  The false warning went out just before 7 p.m. in the evening, through broadcaster NHK’s Japanese mobile app and website.”

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578283950/japan-also-sends-out-then-retracts-a-false-missile-warning

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House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards

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“The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes, rejecting a push by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant privacy limits when it sweeps up Americans’ emails and other personal communications.  Effectively, the vote was almost certainly the end of a debate over 21st-century surveillance and privacy rights that broke out in 2013 after the leaks by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html?_r=0

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Supreme Court Refuses To Review ‘Knock-and-Talk’ Police Killings

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“Although ‘knock-and-talk’ policing has become a thinly veiled, warrantless—lethal—exercise by which citizens are coerced and intimidated into ‘talking’ with heavily armed police who ‘knock’ on their doors in the middle of the night, the Supreme Court will not make the government play by the rules of the Constitution.  The lesson to be learned: the U.S. Supreme Court will not save us.  No one is coming to save us: not the courts, not the legislatures, and not the president.”

Read more: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/justice_denied_the_government_is_not_going_to_save_us

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FBI director calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent public safety issue’

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“Tech companies and many cyber security experts have said that any measure ensuring that law enforcement authorities are able to access data from encrypted products would weaken cyber security for everyone.  U.S. officials have said that default encryption settings on cellphones and other devices hinder their ability to collect evidence needed to pursue criminals.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/fbi-director-calls-unbreakable-encryption-urgent-public-safety-issue/

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LAPD takes another step toward deploying drones domestically

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“Advocates say camera-mounted drones could help protect officers and others by collecting crucial information during high-risk situations or searches without jeopardizing their safety. For many privacy advocates and police critics, however, the drones stir Orwellian visions of unwarranted surveillance or fears of militarized, weapon-toting devices patrolling the skies.  LAPD brass, along with police commissioners, tried to ease those concerns last fall by promising careful restrictions on when the drones would be used, and strong oversight of the pilot program.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-drone-money-20180109-story.html

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Parliament reports 24,000 attempts to access porn sites since election

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“The figure of 24,473 attempts represents about 160 requests per day on average from computers and other devices connected to the parliamentary network – which is used by MPs, peers and staff – between June and October last year.  Parliamentary authorities say the majority of attempts are not deliberate.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/08/parliament-reports-24000-attempts-to-access-pornographic-websites-since-election

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Court Allows Destruction of Digital Voting Records Amid Hacking Fears

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“By granting the stay, the court effectively told the state that it does not in fact have to preserve the digital ballot images – essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots voters fill out at the voting booth – created today.  But Priscilla Duncan, attorney for four Alabama voters who sued the state last week in an attempt to force election officials to preserve the digital records, said Tuesday that their argument was ‘spurious’ and misleading.”

Read more: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/alabama-lawyer-blasts-last-minute-court-ruling-allowing-destruction-digital-voting-records-amid-hacking-fears/

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2017 Was Safest Year for Cops in Nearly 50 Years—Worst For Citizens

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“Data from 2017 reveals that the idea that there is a ‘war on cops’ is nothing more than police propaganda, as the number of officers killed in the line of duty dropped to the second-lowest total in more than 50 years.  Conversely, there were over 1,000 people killed by cops for the fourth year in a row, according to the website killedbypolice.net, which operates a database of individuals killed by law enforcement officers.”

Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2017-safest-year-cops-war-citizens/

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Dirt Boxes: The Newest Government Tool for Warrantless Privacy Invasion

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“That plane flying overhead could very well be scooping up your most intimate data, especially if you live in Texas. The Texas National Guard has reportedly equipped two of its RC-26 military aircraft with cell phone data-collecting dragnets, known as dirt boxes. The ability of government agencies to add new modifications to their aerial surveillance capabilities without any real oversight should sound an alarm for all Americans, not just those who live in the Lone Star State.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dirt-boxes-the-newest-government-tool-for-warrantless-privacy-invasion/

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Police Chief Arrested After Soliciting Cop Posing Online As 14-Year-Old

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“A Pennsylvania police chief—who gained widespread attention after losing his arm in a summer fireworks accident—was arrested after soliciting sex from a teenage girl during an online sting.  Forty-year-old Chief Mike Diebold is being charged with two felonies: unlawful contact with a minor and criminal attempt to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, WPXI, an NBC-affiliate in Pittsburgh reported. Diebold reportedly sent inappropriate photos through an online messaging app while soliciting sexual contact, under the name ‘KuteCop4You’. Little did he know, he was in contact with a fellow police officer – albeit undercover.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/police-chief-arrested-online-772995

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