Category: Access & Censorship

  • Zooey Deschanel Bans Fans from Photographing Her While She’s Singing

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    Zooey Deschanel Bans Fans from Photographing Her While She's Singing An ostensibly polite request found posted outside the She & Him concert at last week's Toronto Urban Roots Fest asking attendees not to snap photos or shoot video of the duo was actually pretty aggressive, as some fans who flouted the ban quickly via Gawker:…

  • Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security

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    Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security As we increasingly take our mobile phones for granted David Hoffman suggests that photographers should be alert to the dangers of carrying a sophisticated monitoring device in their pocket, especially when working abroad.

  • Photographer Injured in Istanbul Protests

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    Link: PDNPulse » Photographer Injured in Istanbul Protests photojournalist Antonio Bolfo of Reportage by Getty was injured in Istanbul after police forces fired tear gas canisters into a crowd of protesters and press

  • Ai Wei Wei on Prism

    Ai Wei Wei on Prism

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    Ai Wei Wei on Prism Ai Wei Wei, the renowned Chinese dissident who has been relentlessly persecuted by his own government, has written an op-ed for the Guardian comparing Chinese totalitarian surveillance with Prism a… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/ai-wei-wei-on-prism.html This abuse of state power goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be…

  • Two journalists, including photographer Edouard Elias, abducted in Syria

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    Two journalists, including photographer Edouard Elias, abducted in Syria According to Le Monde and BBC News, the two journalists, Didier François and Edouard Elias, were travelling to Aleppo in Syria when they were abducted by four armed men at a checkpoint on Thursday. Speaking from Japan, French president François Hollande h via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2273427/two-journalists-including-photographer-edouard-elias-abducted-in-syria French…

  • Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveillance of Its Customers

    Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveillance of Its Customers

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    Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveillance of Its Customers Verizon responded to allegations that the telecom was served with a top-secret court order demanding it provide the FBI and the NSA with customer call records continuously, and in bulk, saying it respects “customers’ privacy” but must comply with the law. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/verizon-responds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29 An anonymous…

  • NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook

    NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook

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    NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook The NSA and FBI directly tapped central servers belonging to nine U.S. internet firms, in order to get a constant feed of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs, according to a new report. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-tapped-internet-servers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29 The companies…

  • DHS Watchdog: ‘Intuition and Hunch’ Are Enough to Search Your Gadgets at Border

    DHS Watchdog: ‘Intuition and Hunch’ Are Enough to Search Your Gadgets at Border

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    DHS Watchdog: ‘Intuition and Hunch’ Are Enough to Search Your Gadgets at Border The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that “intuition and hunch” are among the primary reasons why it is “inadvisable” to establish constitutional safeguards protecting travelers’ electronics from being searched for any via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/border-gadget-searches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29 The full report sheds…

  • NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

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    NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1 Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama

  • Woman throws rock, sics dogs on TV crew

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    Link: Woman throws rock, sics dogs on TV crew | Poynter. The video is astonishing

  • Photographs Push First Amendment Boundaries

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    Photographs Push First Amendment Boundaries – A Photo Editor I don’t know much about Richard Prince, but I like to think that he’s in the business of operating at the edges of what’s acceptable. Whether he’s pushing the boundaries or just working in the grey area I think it’s important for art to have trouble maker via A…

  • After Justice Dept. press probes, a new chilling effect for US national security reporters

    After Justice Dept. press probes, a new chilling effect for US national security reporters

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    After Justice Dept. press probes, a new chilling effect for US national security reporters “President Obama’s conciliatory gesture toward the press this week — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing t… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/24/after-justice-dept-press-prob.html President Obama’s conciliatory gesture toward the press this week —…

  • Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters

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    Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we believe it’s vital to defend WikiLeaks’ right to gather and publish classified information in the public interest, just as it’s vital to protect the rights of Associated Press and Fox News to do…

  • Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance

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    Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance | Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: If online oversharing is a public health problem, then the state’s decision to harness it for its own purposes means that huge, powerful forces within government will come to depend on it via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/privacy-public-health-surveillance If online oversharing is a…

  • White House Defends Tracking Fox Reporter

    White House Defends Tracking Fox Reporter

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    Justice Dept. Investigated Fox Reporter Over Leak Officials searched the personal e-mails and tried to track the movements of a Fox News correspondent, James Rosen, in investigating a leak. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/us/politics/white-house-defends-tracking-fox-reporter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Details of the government’s investigation of the reporter, James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, emerged in a court affidavit obtained by…

  • Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation

    Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation

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    Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist’s movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also took via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/feds-tracked-fox-news-reporter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29 “Never…

  • Border newspaper stops covering cartels after repeated attacks

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    Link: Border newspaper stops covering cartels after repeated attacks | Poynter. Escalating cartel violence in Mexico has led to bouts of self-censorship among journalists fearing reprisals, but few so prominently as Nuevo Laredo’s El Mañana, which has decided to quit reporting on local cartel violence altogether.

  • Computer scientists to FBI: don’t require all our devices to have backdoors for spies

    Computer scientists to FBI: don’t require all our devices to have backdoors for spies

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    Computer scientists to FBI: don’t require all our devices to have backdoors for spies In an urgent, important blog post, computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays out the case against rules requiring manufacturers to put wiretapping backdoors in their communications tool… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/17/computer-scientists-to-fbi-do.html computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays…

  • FBI investigates fatal beating of man by deputies; video evidence may have been destroyed

    FBI investigates fatal beating of man by deputies; video evidence may have been destroyed

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    FBI investigates fatal beating of man by deputies; video evidence may have been destroyed The FBI has launched an investigation into the beating death of a man by sheriff’s deputies in Kern County, California. Two cellphones that contained video evidence at one point no longer con… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/15/fbi-investigates-fatal-beating.html

  • The Two-Way Street That Is Snooping and the News Media

    The Two-Way Street That Is Snooping and the News Media

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    Snooping and the News Media: It’s a 2-Way Street Lines are being crossed in all directions, with the government seizing journalists’ phone records, and Bloomberg reporters monitoring the actions of their clients. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/media/the-two-way-street-that-is-snooping-and-the-news-media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss So at the same time The Associated Press, a nonprofit news organization owned by various media agencies, was responding to government…