Home » Posts tagged 'aclu'

Tag Archives: aclu

Olduvai
Click on image to purchase

Content

Olduvai III: Catacylsm
Click on image to purchase

Post categories

Post Archives by Category

Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

June 30, 2019

Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology “The city is sending a bold statement that it won’t sit by idly while the dystopian technology further outpaces our civil liberties protections and harms privacy, racial and gender justice, and freedom of speech.” A display shows a facial recognition […]

Continue Reading →

Images of Children Crying

June 23, 2018

Images of Children Crying René Magritte Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness) 1940 The two most viral photographs of the ‘Trump Separation Scandal’ have now been debunked, or at the very least been proven to have been used ‘out of context’. This is a dangerous development, as are the reasons to use them the way they […]

Continue Reading →

China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind?

April 6, 2018

China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind? The ACLU declared China’s system “nightmarish,” and it’s not difficult to see why. In its third season, the British science fiction TV series Black Mirror featured an episode called “Nosedive.” The episode, which was co-written by The Office actress Rashida Jones and starred Bryce Howard, depicted a society […]

Continue Reading →

Lawmaker Who Pushed Bill to Protect People Filming Police Arrested for Filming Police

October 1, 2016

Lawmaker Who Pushed Bill to Protect People Filming Police Arrested for Filming Police An Arkansas State representative who helped pass a state law protecting people who film police was arrested Monday while filming Little Rock police as they put a black man in handcuffs after a traffic stop. The charges against Rep. John Walker have […]

Continue Reading →

Data-Grabbing ‘Stingrays’ Are Attacking Our Civil Liberties

November 12, 2015

Data-Grabbing ‘Stingrays’ Are Attacking Our Civil Liberties  Carolina K. Smith MD / Shutterstock A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that Michigan police have been using portable cellphone tracking devices—so-called Stingrays and Kingfish among them—to investigate crimes since 2006. These devices are designed to imitate cell phone towers in order to gather metadata from […]

Continue Reading →

Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes

August 4, 2015

Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that “we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.” We know this because Politico and the Washington Post  […]

Continue Reading →

NSA’s Bulk Collection of Phone Records is Illegal, Appeals Court Says

May 8, 2015

NSA’S BULK COLLECTION OF PHONE RECORDS IS ILLEGAL, APPEALS COURT SAYS A federal appeals court panel ruled on Thursday that the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata of phone calls to and from Americans is not authorized by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, throwing out the government’s legal justification for the surveillance program exposed by NSA […]

Continue Reading →

Obama Has Sentenced Whistleblowers to 25 Times the Jail Time of All Prior U.S. Presidents COMBINED

January 23, 2015

Obama Has Sentenced Whistleblowers to 25 Times the Jail Time of All Prior U.S. Presidents COMBINED And Obama Is Arguably More Hostile Towards The Press Than Any President In History The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined. This administration has also obtained much longer jail sentences against whistleblowers than previous presidents. ACLU legislative […]

Continue Reading →

NSA Fesses Up To Improper Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens

December 27, 2014

NSA Fesses Up To Improper Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens. While you were drinking eggnog on Christmas Eve, the National Security Agency released hundreds of pages of heavily redacted documents detailing instances of improper surveillance on U.S. citizens in the last 12 years. The batch of documents, stretching from the fourth quarter of 2001 to the second […]

Continue Reading →

Olduvai IV: Courage
Click on image to read excerpts

Olduvai II: Exodus
Click on image to purchase

Click on image to purchase @ FriesenPress