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Link: NPPA Advocacy Committee

An attorney who believed that the officers might be using excessive force, Simon Glik began recording with his cell phone. Police arrested Glik and charged him with, among other things, violations of the wiretap statute

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Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday

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“Force actual tests. Make girls go to a doctor. Get a system to follow girls who are found to be puking,”

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While the law no longer has language specifically addressing photography or video recording, both opponents and supporters of the law say that its intent is to prevent videos of farm operations from being made. Under the law, fraudulently entering a farm would be punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a $1,500 fine.

Link: British Journal of Photography

Tahmineh Monzavi, an Iranian photographer and director, has been arrested in her native country

Link: Boing Boing

But increasingly these things are networked — we carry around location-sensitive, accelerometer-equipped A/V recording devices at all times (our phones). Adding network capability to these things means that design flaws, vulnerabilities and malicious code can all conspire to expose us to unprecedented privacy invasions

Link: Boing Boing

thus sparing politicians and VIPs the ugly and unseemly spectacle of having to confront voters who disagree with their policies

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