Following up on my previous post about iOS 4 powered devices logging your every move, I just noticed this story from Time: The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they’ve pulled over without the owner’s knowledge, thereby violating […]
Last week I posted about Anthony Graber. He’s a Maryland man who videotaped the police pulling him over and posted the video on YouTube. Graber was arrested after posting the video for violating Maryland’s wiretapping laws. Now the Maryland Attorney Generals office has issued an opinion saying that this law doesn’t really apply to these […]
As a photographer stories like this really get my blood boiling: A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who […]
Members of the Maine Republican Party decided to ransack a classroom of a middle school teacher, when they were allowed to use the room for a caucus meeting. Here is a list of what happened (courtesy of Think Progress): – For seven years, Clifford has had “a collage-type poster depicting the history of the U.S. […]
This story has received a lot of attention this past week: Commissioners at one of the country’s biggest airports are considering punishing Muslim cab drivers who refuse service to passengers possessing alcohol or guide dogs. The cabbies claim transporting those items violates Islamic law. “It is against our faith and the airport is discriminating against […]
Remember the protests that broke out in Afghanistan after it was revealed that an interrogator at Gitmo allegedly desecrated the Koran? The right and the administration quickly blamed the media for the protests and violence that followed the story and said it was false. Well now the FBI is citing similar cases: FBI agents at […]
Sincerely, the Judicial branch: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy […]
Joe Lieberman: Loves Our Leader; Hates Grandmothers Keeping America Safe from Raging Grannies Domestic spying on anti-war groups forces ACLU into action ( via The People’s Republic of Seabrook) It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in […]
Raw Story has uncovered some very serious information regarding the government spying on people: Documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has indeed monitored political groups solely on the basis that they opposed a U.S.-led war. According to a memo written in 2002, the FBI launched […]
WASHINGTON – Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday. […]