A photographer who took a picture of a fatally injured man has been charged under a strict French right-to-privacy law.
On Friday evening Nov. 13, Maya Vidon-White, like many Parisians, was dining with friends. But the moment she learned that Kalashnikov-wielding terrorists were attacking the Bataclan concert hall, she grabbed her camera, hopped on her scooter and sped to the scene.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had allowed television crews to film two patients without their consent: one who was dying, the other in significant distress.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has agreed to pay a $2.2 million penalty to federal regulators for allowing television crews to film two patients without their consent — one who was dying, the other in significant distress
Years ago, photographer Arne Svenson looked out his Tribeca window to see a vision “so breathtaking that it would be impossible not to record.” It was a quiet, intimate but anonymous moment in an apartment across from his own, where the features of his su
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/04/photographer-arne-svenson-talks-about-his-lawsuit-the-first-amendment-and-internet-commenters/
As part of The BlowUp event hosted by Feature Shoot, the photographer spoke publicly for the first time about the ordeal that followed after the series went viral online. By the blogosphere, he was labeled “creepy photog.” Dr. Phil invited him to be on his show to discuss his “problem.” He was sued twice for privacy violations and won, though recently, a bill was proposed that would make similar illegal, limiting the ways in which artists in the future are able to work.
Prosecutors allege photojournalist Maya Vidon-White broke a controversial law by taking a picture of one of the victims of the November terrorist attacks in Paris.
via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/a-photographer-is-on-trial-for-taking-a-picture-of-the-batac#.qudV58WK1B
Prosecutors allege photojournalist Maya Vidon-White broke a controversial law by taking a picture of one of the victims of the November terrorist attacks in Paris.
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.
via The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
The moderators of these platforms — perched uneasily at the intersection of corporate profits, social responsibility, and human rights — have a powerful impact on free speech, government dissent, the shaping of social norms, user safety, and the meaning of privacy. What flagged content should be removed? Who decides what stays and why? What constitutes newsworthiness? Threat? Harm? When should law enforcement be involved?
The University of California, Davis spent “at least $175,000 to scrub the internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students,” The Sacramento Bee has reported. University administrators hired a private reputation
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/uc-davis-pays-175k-to-bury-infamous-pepper-spray-incident.html
The Sacramento Bee says in its report that the university hired Nevins & Associates, a Maryland company, in 2013 to bury references to the incident in order to counter “venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the Chancellor.”
Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/13/photog-matches-photos-taken-subway/
He put his photos into an app called FindFace to see if it could identify the people he had taken pictures of on Russia’s main social media site VKontakte. Long story short: the app did VERY well
Over 1.5 billion people worldwide use the Facebook app on a monthly basis, and all of those people have opted in to Facebook’s privacy policy by the act of creating an account. Facebook, like many large companies, has expended their fair share of effort t
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/04/we-dont-understand-privacy/
Does merely launching the app give Facebook the ability to scan and analyze my camera roll?
Because he’s become part of the canon, with auction prices to match, but there are still places — The New York Times is one — where his most sexually charged photographs are considered too transgressive for reproduction.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/why-mapplethorpe-still-matters.html?_r=0
A quarter-century later, canonization is complete. In Los Angeles, a doubleheader retrospective, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium,” is on view at both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A documentary film, “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” will have its debut Monday on HBO. Rumor has it that a biopic is in the works. An artist once reviled as a pariah and embraced as a martyr has been thoroughly absorbed into mainstream. He’s now a classic, with auction prices to match. The question is, how does the work, cleaned of the grit of controversy, hold up?
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: http://www.poynter.org/2016/obama-administration-sets-record-for-unfulfilled-foia-requests/402326/
The analysis also comes on the heels of a disclosure from VICE News that the Obama administration worked behind the scenes with the Department of Justice to frustrate attempts to reform the Freedom of Information Act
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via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/will-the-first-amendment-survive-the-information-age/401868/
The mere definition of free speech is getting clouded: Are video games a kind of speech? (It looks like it.) What about computer-driven content like searches and automated stories? Put another way, can iPhone’s Siri claim First Amendment rights if she somehow offends or libels you?
shawkan – Shawkan has suffered inhumane conditions and a prolonged pre-trial that has seen him in detention for more than 1,000 days
via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/03/10/letter-prison-photojournalist-shawkan-issues-plaintive-call-oppression/
Shawkan has suffered inhumane conditions and a prolonged pre-trial that has seen him in detention for more than 1,000 days
Another “national security” power evolves into an everyday power.
What does this rule change mean for you? In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages
A long-time Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested on the side of a road yesterday while transmitting photos he shot of former First Lady Nancy
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/03/10/l-times-photographer-arrested-nancy-reagan-funeral-motorcade/
“[The officers] resented that he would question their motives,” Werksman tells the LA Times. “They swarmed him and threw him to the ground and cuffed him.” Ricardo DeAratanha suffered a sprained elbow from the throw-down.
The takeaway from the beating yesterday? Many GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/christopher-morris-beating/
Simply, many of the GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence. Combine the commotion of African-American protesters marching through a Trump rally with one of the most seasoned and esteemed campaign photographers standing eighteen inches outside the photographer’s “pen,” and the result is no surprise.
What happened? It starts with the “press pen” — a sad, anti-democratic invention where journalists are corralled at political rallies like so much cattle, and under orders from the campaigns and their security not to leave and talk to rank-and-file voters. No campaign has been more aggressive in controlling the movement and access of the press than that of Trump.
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via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/secret-service-agent-body-slams-time-photographer-at-trump-rally/399121/
“Additionally, statements by Mr. Trump regarding his disdain for the press and for photographers in particular may have contributed to this incident and should be remedied immediately.”
Photojournalist Christopher Morris, on assignment for TIME magazine covering a Donald Trump rally today in Radford, VA, was involved in an incident with a Secret Service agent as he tried to photograph Black Lives Matter protesters who were being thrown o
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/times-christopher-morris-slammed-ground-trump-rally
Kennerly also wrote, “Chris can be faulted for using an expletive when the agent tried to block him from taking a photo, but their training definitely doesn’t teach them to assault people for something they said – at least it didn’t used to …”.
According to The Independent Journal’s congressional reporter Joe Perticone, the man holding the camera in the video below is a journalist. Perticone |
via Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/29/video-reporter-grabs-neck-of-secret-service-at-trump-rally/
“These “photographers” are agent provocateurs deliberately sent to cause trouble. ”
Measure for Measure.
Kick the shyte out of them.
As soon as they grab, kick the shyte out of them.
A photographer working a Donald Trump rally was thrown to the ground by security.
via Mashable: http://mashable.com/2016/02/29/trump-photographer-choke-slam/#7KuJTAd8Lmqo
The incident, which was captured in numerous videos, begins when the photographer, Christopher Morris, attempts to shoot a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, who disrupted the Trump rally by marching out with their hands above their heads.
He is stopped by an agent and then tells him, “Fuck you.” The agent asks, “What?”