Category: Access & Censorship
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iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets Agency researchers conducted a multi-year effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, presenting their findings at an secret annual “Jamboree.” via The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/ RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and…
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L.A. Pays $50k to Harassed Photogs, Agrees to Train Sheriff’s Deputies
L.A. Pays $50k to Harassed Photogs, Agrees to Train Sheriff’s Deputies | PDNPulse Los Angeles County has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to photographers and instruct sheriff’s deputies to respect First Amendment rights. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/l-pays-50k-harassed-photogs-agrees-train-sheriff-deputies.html The settlement stems from a lawsuit the ACLU filed on behalf of the photographers in 2011. The suit…
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Feds to Pay Toledo Blade $18,000 Over Arrest of Photographer, Reporter
Feds to Pay Toledo Blade $18,000 Over Arrest of Photographer, Reporter | PDNPulse The federal government has agreed to pay The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio $18,000 to settle a lawsuit over the detention of two journalists last year at a military tank plant, the Associated Press reports. In settling the case, the government admitted…
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DOJ Report Blasts Ferguson Police for First Amendment Violations
DOJ Report Blasts Ferguson Police for First Amendment Violations | PDNPulse Ferguson, Missouri, police officers “frequently infringe on residents’ First Amendment rights, interfering with their right to record police activities and making enforcement decisions based on the content of individuals’ expression,” according to a repor via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/doj-report-blasts-ferguson-police-first-amendment-violations.html The DOJ says in the report that…
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Hillary Clinton exclusively used private email while secretary of state – Boing Boing
Hillary Clinton exclusively used private email while secretary of state Open government advocates blasted the Bush administration for using off-the-books email accounts, so it’s only fair that Hilary Clinton finds herself in deep doodoo for doing the same. via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/03/02/hillary-clinton-exclusively-us.html Open government advocates blasted the Bush administration for using off-the-books email accounts to…
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Debate over beheading photo | UTSanDiego.com
Debate over beheading photo One of the biggest stories of 2015 will easily be ISIS and its rampage through Iraq and Syria and efforts to defeat the radical group. via San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/27/isis-photo-beheading-front-page/?#article-copy “I felt – and feel – very strongly that we should not have used the still image from the Islamic State…
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The James Risen case and Eric Holder’s tarnished press freedom legacy – Boing Boing
The James Risen case and Eric Holder’s tarnished press freedom legacy The outgoing Attorney General raised eyebrows when answering a question about his Justice Department’s notorious crackdown on leaks, and by extension the press–most notably New York Times rep… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/18/the-james-risen-case-and-eric.html Along the way, we found out that the government had spied on…
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Print Your Photos or Risk Losing Them to the Digital Dark Age, Internet Pioneer Warns
Print Your Photos or Risk Losing Them to the Digital Dark Age, Internet Pioneer Warns Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it out. That’s the warning Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gave at a talk recently, saying that via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/02/17/print-your-photos-or-risk-losing-them-to-the-digital-dark-age-internet-pioneer-warns/ Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it…
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Photojournalist Shawkan’s detention extended indefinitely – Daily News Egypt
Photojournalist Shawkan’s detention extended indefinitely – Daily News Egypt The Cairo Criminal Court extended the pretrial detention of photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zied, also known as Shawkan, indefinitely. via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/02/16/photojournalist-shawkans-detention-extended-indefinitely/ The well known photojournalist has already been detained for 552 days without trial.
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Keeping our distance – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/white-house-remote#.VOIH0kL_un1 Photographers covering the White House have to deal with many restrictions on when and where we can snap the president. For most events, we can only work in designated areas which provide little movement and not much choice in how we can take our photos
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Fox News Website Offers Unedited ISIS Execution Video – NYTimes.com
Fox News Website Offers Unedited ISIS Execution Video The network said its audience should have the option to see the video of a burning pilot, which was posted with a warning that it was extremely graphic. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/business/fox-news-website-posts-unedited-isis-execution-video.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 In a statement, John Moody, the executive editor of Fox News, said that after careful consideration the…
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Obama’s empty surveillance promises – Boing Boing
Obama’s empty surveillance promises A year after the president’s promise to rein in warrantless, illegal mass surveillance, he’s revealed a plan that does nothing to fix the most egregious elements of American spying. via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/04/obamas-empty-surveillance-pr.html A year after the president’s promise to rein in warrantless, illegal mass surveillance, he’s revealed a plan that…
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Bünyamin Aygün: Photojournalist survives 40 days as ISIS hostage – World – CBC News
Bünyamin Aygün: Photojournalist survives 40 days as ISIS hostage Few things make photojournalist Bünyamin Aygün flinch anymore. But hearing even a second of his strained voice on a video from last January is too much.
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Egypt frees Australian, one of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists – The Washington Post
Egypt frees one of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists; Australian is quickly deported The Australian Peter Greste, who was imprisoned over a year ago, was quickly deported. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-frees-australian-one-of-three-jailed-al-jazeera-journalists/2015/02/01/52380912-aa38-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html?wprss=rss_world Australian Peter Greste immediately boarded a plane for Cyprus and is in good health, according to a report posted online by his employer, the…
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Clichy : Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s Silence taken down: when fear becomes censorship – The Eye of Photography
Clichy : Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s Silence taken down: when fear becomes censorship This installation by Zoulikha Bouabdellah, exhibited at the Pavillon Vendôme in Clichy, was taken down by the photographer and Christine Ollier, following a complaint from a Muslim association. Where are we headed? Were the demonstrations of January 11th all for nothing?
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Facebook censoring images of Tibetan monks who are self-immolating to protest China – Boing Boing
Facebook censoring images of Tibetan monks who are self-immolating to protest China Activists will today deliver a petition to Facebook demanding the company not censor the images. via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/01/27/facebook-is-censoring-images-o.html The nonprofit group International Campaign for Tibet will today deliver a petition to Facebook headquarters demanding that the company not censor images of Tibetan…
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Colombian photojournalist escapes kidnappers – Committee to Protect Journalists
Colombian photojournalist escapes kidnappers EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 29, 2015, reports in the Colombian press said Johanny Vargas issued a statement saying he had not been kidnapped and that his disappearance occurred under personal circumstances. CPJ is investigating. Bogotá, January 23, 20 Link: http://www.cpj.org/2015/01/colombian-photojournalist-escapes-kidnappers.php “We are relieved that photojournalist Johanny Vargas is home safe and…
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Edward Snowden files reveal GCHQ scooped up journalist e-mails – The Washington Post
British spy agency scoops up journalists’ e-mails Guardian revelations that GCHQ kept e-mails of journalists renews debate in Britain over surveillance powers. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/edward-snowden-files-reveal-gchq-scooped-up-journalist-e-mails/2015/01/19/40b64644-028a-45a6-b025-fd0d4cf83a2c_story.html?wprss=rss_world E-mails from the Guardian, The Washington Post, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, Le Monde, the BBC and the Sun were among 70,000 harvested in November 2008 — collected…
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Arkansas Bill Criminalizes Capturing and Possessing Certain Camera Drone Photos
Arkansas Bill Criminalizes Capturing and Possessing Certain Camera Drone Photos Update: There have been new developments. Please see below. There’s a new bill passing through the Arkansas State Legislature that may be concerning to via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/16/arkansas-bill-criminalizes-capturing-possessing-certain-camera-drone-photos/ The bill goes on to state that possessing and distributing photos that were captured by unlawful drone usage…
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New Charlie Hebdo Cover Creates New Questions for U.S. News Media – NYTimes.com
New Charlie Hebdo Cover Creates New Questions for U.S. News Media The cartoon depiction of Muhammad on Charlie Hebdo’s new cover has presented another editorial judgment to news media about whether to republish it. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/world/europe/new-charlie-hebdo-cover-creates-new-questions-for-us-news-media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 “Here’s the thing that troubles me: This is a time when, regardless of your decision to publish or not,…