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Surely this won't be used to harass law-abiding citizens practicing their constitutional right to carry a firearm. Surely this will scare criminals away, right?
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Actually, if I were an armed criminal, I would most want to commit crime somewhere where people were unarmed and unlikely to strike back. Somewhere like... New York.

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Yay hardware/software monoculture!

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Apparently police are now suing lawyers who file public records requests for dashcam videos. Just in case proving your innocence against lying police wasn't hard enough. 
This is some of the most major bullshit ever.
C.O.P.S. somehow managed just fine, with sophisticated privacy technology called "bleeps" and "blurred faces". What a load of total fucking bullshit.

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes licks the asshole of authority, and loves the taste.

Love the statute of limitations angle in the article too - they said they would release video past the statue of limitations, so it can't be used against them. BUT IT'S USED AGAINST US. I guess those limitations only apply if you're an officer committing a crime, and not a civilian committing a crime, eh?

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the cost to store all phone calls made by all citizens will fall from about 17 cents per person per year today to under 2 cents per person per year in 2015. 

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Yup. Odds are your phone is reporting every keystroke you make and every text you make to a central data collection authority. Gee, you think the NSA won't make thousands of requests for that data, the way they do with google accounts, cell phone CALLS, etc, etc?

You are paying more money than a landline to have less privacy. At least root your phone and remove this shit.

Apple doesn't seem to use this package, most likely because they have their own in house data collection and warehousing.

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This is kind of a good summary of some of the various issues and events that I've blogged about over the past few years. Our country is going to shit like it never has before. Occupy Wall Street has a lot of sympathy from people due to our government pulling off shit like this. It's not just the corporations that are angering people -- though they certainly help.

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As if cameras weren't bad enough -- now TALKING "too aggressively" will guarantee police harassament (and also cause cameras to swivel around and point at you).

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How would you like your ISP to be legally required to log your instant messages and webpages? The Republicans sponsored this, but the Democrats support it too.

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They want to change the law so that what Bush did would be legal, moving forward
(It was never legal.)
FISA was established in 1978 and has worked ever since.
That's not good enough for these big brother cronies.

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I guess CopWatch doesn't operate in shitty states like Pennsylvania. The issue is the *sound*, not the *picture*. Wiretapping laws! (Without wires?) Of course, the cop cars there have cameras that record sound. Fair? Of course not! And Virginia????

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A whistleblower released a video allowing this lawsuit to happen:

This guy called 911, was picked up by an ambulance, BEATEN by a paramedic, who falsified charges against him, resulting in him going to jail (10 days) and losing his job! WTF?!?!?!?!?!

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The slashdot discussion to the "wiretapping violation" article I posted yesterday.

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The Democrats are not your friend. Remember that...

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License plate readers, automatic pivots at intersections to stop suspected cars from being able to get to their desgination.

This will start small (100 cameras) and gradually work its way up.

Expect this virus to eventually spread to Wasghinton, D.C...

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Expect this trend to grow.

This is not good.

If you can't see that, you need to reevaluate your belief system.

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No shit.

The corporations aren't our friends. And people are signing 2-year cellphone contracts with these fucks?!

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FBI has a surveillance system that creates instant wiretaps on almost any communications device. A 1,000 pages of restricted documents released under the Freedom of Information Act were required to determine the veracity of this clandestine project.

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BBC article on new US and UK spy gadgets -- they can now determine your heart rate through a wall, using only radio wavs. UAVs that can stay up in the sky for five years are coming soon too.

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