Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration
Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama
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 Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/06/05/photographs-push-first-amendment-boundaries/
Boundary pushing is good for art, we don’t always “get it”, but it allows other artists to build upon it.
“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 — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing the door after the sources have already bolted,
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 the same. Under the l
via Freedom of the Press: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/virtually-everything-government-did-wikileaks-now-being-done-mainstream-us-reporters
We’re continuing that project, and we’re using the Guggenheim funds to expand it in difficult-to-fund regions. We’re doing Texas, and it’s easier to get funding there, than some place like Idaho. It’s a very expensive project because there are three of us traveling, and I pay Brad. Then we produce the newspaper
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 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
Officials searched the personal e-mails and tried to track the movements of a Fox News correspondent, James Rosen, in investigating a leak.
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 The Washington Post. Without naming Mr. Rosen, the document describes the reporter as “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.”
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
“Never in the history of the Espionage Act has the government accused a reporter of violating the law for urging a source to disclose information,” Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project said in a statement. “This is a dangerous precedent that threatens to criminalize routine investigative journalism.”
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.
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 out the case against rules requiring manufacturers to put wiretapping backdoors in their communications tools
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
Lines are being crossed in all directions, with the government seizing journalists’ phone records, and Bloomberg reporters monitoring the actions of their clients.
So at the same time The Associated Press, a nonprofit news organization owned by various media agencies, was responding to government intrusion into its affairs, another news service, Bloomberg, was responding to complaints from clients that it was peering into private matters.
Link: Beyoncé photos spark press-PR feud | Poynter.
The strategy hasn’t worked too well for Beyoncé; news outlets, frustrated about the limitations on their photographers, have used the original offending photos, from Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show, in lieu of the provided photos. The Manchester Evening News ran one of the unwanted photos with a review of her concerts in the city.
The Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records for reporters and editors who work for the Associated Press news agency, including records for the home phones and cell phones of individual journalists, apparently in an effort to uncover a leak.
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,”
Link: Justice Department secretly seizes AP phone records | Poynter.
The records came from AP reporters as well as offices in New York, Washington and Connecticut. They include records from “20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP journalists and offices, including cell and home phone lines,” AP reports.
Link: James Foley likely ‘being held with one or more Western journalists’ in Syria | Poynter.
James Foley, a freelance journalist for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost who’s been missing in Syria since last November, was likely “abducted by a pro-regime militia group and subsequently turned over to Syrian government forces,” GlobalPost CEO and President Philip Balboni says.
Slate’s Ryan Gallagher caught wind of a new face recognition software being rolled out at the Statue of Liberty. He interviewed a rep from Total Recall, who were reported to be representing C…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/30/rumored-statue-of-liberty-face.html
Cognitec and its lawyers began to barrage Gallagher with emails and letters warning him that if he wrote about this, they’d sue him. When he asked Total Recall for clarification, they threatened to sue him, personally, for harassment. The National Park Service didn’t have much to say about the bid, saying “I’m not going to show my hand as far as what security technologies we have.” Go, security-through-obscurity! Hurrah for spending tax dollars without any transparency!
Amy Meyer was horrified by what she saw at a Draper slaughterhouse, but she didn’t plan on
via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56235040-78/meyer-gollan-monday-utah.html.csp
Defense attorney Stewart Gollan said Monday that as Meyer stood on public property she used her cellphone to capture video of the facility.
How do you solve the problem of professional concert photographers snapping unflattering photos of you during your live shows? One way is to ban them
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/04/22/after-unflattering-viral-photos-beyonce-now-banning-pro-photographers/
There are no photo credentials for this show. Local news outlets, including print and online will be given a link to download photos from every show. They will need to register to access the photos
Confusion over France’s strict privacy laws has made it harder for street photographers to work in the tradition of legends like Henri Cartier-Bresson.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/paris-city-of-rights/
In his 20-year career, Mr. Turpin has learned how to be inconspicuous, relying on a small Leica and a quick smile — especially when he’s shooting in France, whose privacy laws are among the world’s strictest. “Everyone has the right to respect for his private life,” states Article 9 of France’s civil code. Yet, as many street photographers have discovered, the law is open to judges’ interpretation because legislators have refused to define the concept of privacy in clear terms