Category: Access & Censorship

  • Festival: Don’t Want to Be in Photos? Put a Red Dot on Your Forehead

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    Festival: Don’t Want to Be in Photos? Put a Red Dot on Your Forehead A festival in the Netherlands has come up with a strange response to the EU’s new GDPR privacy laws: it’s asking attendees who don’t want to be via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/08/17/festival-dont-want-to-be-in-photos-put-a-red-dot-on-your-forehead/ A festival in the Netherlands has come up with a strange…

  • Shahidul Alam: A Singular Voice in Photography for Dignity and Human Rights – The New York Times

    Shahidul Alam: A Singular Voice in Photography for Dignity and Human Rights – The New York Times

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    Shahidul Alam: A Singular Voice in Photography for Dignity and Human Rights Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses. Now he is in jail in Bangladesh. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/lens/shahidul-alam-bangladesh-photo.html Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses.…

  • Editorial: The Freedom of the Press Is Yours – The Atlantic

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    The Freedom of the Press Is Yours It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-freedom-of-the-press-is-yours/567655/ It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe.

  • Trump and the Enemies of the People | The New Yorker

    Trump and the Enemies of the People | The New Yorker

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    Trump and the Enemies of the People The refusal to bend to the President’s assault on the press, and the protection of practices and institutions that are more fragile than we usually care to acknowledge, is essential to the future of American democracy. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-and-the-enemies-of-the-people Nearly every day, Trump makes his hostility…

  • The #freeshahidulalam Campaign: How You Can Help | PDNPulse

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    The #freeshahidulalam Campaign: How You Can Help (Update) | PDNPulse Shahidul Alam remains in jail. Amidst a security crackdown in Bangladesh, his supporters continue calling for his release—and ask others to support him and his colleagues in the press. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/08/the-freeshahidulalam-campaign-how-you-can-help.html More than a week after police jailed Bangladeshi photographer, educator and activist Shahidul…

  • Should we cover right-wing extremism? – Columbia Journalism Review

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    Should we cover right-wing extremism? On August 12, 2017, a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to “Unite the Right” brought white nationalism to the center of American news. Ahead of the next demonstration, to be held this weekend in Washington DC, I spoke with a scholar of media manipula via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/should-we-cover-right-wing-extremism.php Light disinfects,…

  • Journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for six years. Is it still news? – Columbia Journalism Review

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    Journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for six years. Is it still news? On August 13, 2012, only a few days after celebrating his 31st birthday, freelance journalist Austin Tice emailed his father back in Houston to let him know he had wrapped up his reporting from Syria. Tice’s parents have not heard…

  • New Initiative Created by Jill Greenberg Seeks Gender Parity in Advertising Photography | PDNPulse

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    New Initiative Created by Jill Greenberg Seeks Gender Parity in Advertising Photography | PDNPulse Alreadymade, an online directory, seeks gender parity in advertising by providing a resource for clients looking to hire experienced women photographers. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/06/gender-parity-advertising-photography.html Photographer Jill Greenberg has launched an online directory in an effort to promote women photographers for advertising…

  • What Photographers Need to Know About GDPR

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    What Photographers Need to Know About GDPR Anyone running a small business or engaged in street photography has to navigate a new set of challenges after Europe’s GDPR regulations came into force. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/06/gdpr-how-bad-is-it-for-photographers.html The EU has a new data protection law, the so-called GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, or as we Germans like…

  • Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions

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    Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions A federal judge ruled Monday that millions of the social network’s users can proceed as a group with claims that its photo-scanning technology violated an Illinois law. It’s rare for co… via The Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/17/facebook-photo-scanning-lawsuit-could-cost-it-billions/ A federal judge ruled Monday that millions of the social network’s users…

  • Egyptian Photojournalist Facing Death Penalty Wins ‘Press Freedom Prize’

    Egyptian Photojournalist Facing Death Penalty Wins ‘Press Freedom Prize’

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    Egyptian Photojournalist Facing Death Penalty Wins ‘Press Freedom Prize’ Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, has been awarded the 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize. Shawkan has been in via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/05/01/egyptian-photojournalist-facing-death-penalty-wins-press-freedom-prize/ Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, has been awarded the 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize. Shawkan…

  • Journalists, it’s unethical to ignore your online security | Poynter

    Journalists, it’s unethical to ignore your online security | Poynter

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    Journalists, it’s unethical to ignore your online security – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/news/journalists-its-unethical-ignore-your-online-security The Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom (a collaboration between OpenNews staff; Amanda Hickman, formerly…

  • What Facebook Can Learn About You From a Single Uploaded Photo

    What Facebook Can Learn About You From a Single Uploaded Photo

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    What Facebook Can Learn About You From a Single Uploaded Photo Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill this week regarding his company’s use of users’ personal data. Zuckerberg denied via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/04/11/what-facebook-can-learn-about-you-from-a-single-uploaded-photo/ The Wall Street Journal has published an article (behind a paywall) titled “How Pizza Night Can Cost More…

  • How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria

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    How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria Syrian regime documents and testimony from defectors reveal that Marie Colvin and others were hunted as part of a policy to eliminate journalists. via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/09/marie-colvin-syria-assad/ How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on…

  • Deputy Who Shot Photog ‘Reasonably’ Thought Tripod Was Gun: Lawyers

    Deputy Who Shot Photog ‘Reasonably’ Thought Tripod Was Gun: Lawyers

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    Deputy Who Shot Photog ‘Reasonably’ Thought Tripod Was Gun: Lawyers In September 2017, an Ohio newspaper photojournalist was shot by a deputy at a traffic stop when a tripod was mistaken for a gun. Now lawyers are arguing via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/03/27/deputy-who-shot-photog-reasonably-thought-tripod-was-gun-lawyers/ Photographer Andy Grimm was shot at around 10 p.m. on September 4th, 2017, when…

  • ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The Guardian

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    ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users –…

  • ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The Guardian

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    ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users –…

  • Facebook’s Surveillance Machine – The New York Times

    Facebook’s Surveillance Machine – The New York Times

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    Opinion | Facebook’s Surveillance Machine It’s true that the Cambridge Analytica incident wasn’t a security breach. It was something far worse. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the…

  • Egyptian Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Photojournalist Shawkan | PDNPulse

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    Egyptian Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Photojournalist Shawkan | PDNPulse Mahmoud Abou Zeid, aka Shawkan, faces the death penalty along with 700 others arrested at an anti-government protest in Cairo in 2013. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/03/egyptian-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-photojournalist-shawkan.html “Seeking the death penalty for a photographer who simply covered an opposition demonstration is a political punishment, not an act…

  • Journalist or Terrorist? Kashmir Photographer Is Jailed, Pending Answer – The New York Times

    Journalist or Terrorist? Kashmir Photographer Is Jailed, Pending Answer – The New York Times

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    Journalist or Terrorist? Kashmir Photographer Is Jailed, Pending Answer The Indian authorities say a young conflict photographer in Kashmir conspired against them. But journalists insist he was jailed to silence him. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/asia/kashmir-kamran-yousuf-photographer.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=8&version=internal&contentColl But the photographer, Kamran Yousuf, 21, has been stuck in jail since September — the victim, his friends and family say, of…