Category: Access & Censorship
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The Mountaintop Mining “Kiddie Porn” Smear: The Photo Must Be Seen
The Mountaintop Mining “Kiddie Porn” Smear: The Photo Must Be Seen – Reading The Pictures Once we start censoring images with this kind of significance, especially in this visually-driven culture, I think we’re lost. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/06/the-mountaintop-mining-kiddie-porn-smear-the-photo-must-be-seen/ If you’ve followed the story, mountaintop mining activist Maria Gunnoe was set to testify to Congress…
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Murky brown waters
Link: Conscientious | Murky brown waters She had prepared a slideshow presentation that included a photograph by the photojournalist Katie Falkenberg depicting a nude young girl sitting in a bathtub filled with murky brown water. The photo was meant as a salient statement to legislators on the impact of coal mining on society’s most vulnerable.…
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Fleeing Violence against Journalists, Veracruz Photographer Seeks Asylum in US
Fleeing Violence against Journalists, Veracruz Photographer Seeks Asylum in US | PDNPulse A photojournalist from Veracruz, Mexico, is seeking political asylum in the US following a wave of killings of journalists who have covered drug trafficking in the violence-ridden Mexican state. The El Paso Times reports that Miguel Angel Lopez Solana, a via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/06/fleeing-violence-against-journalists-veracruz-photographer-seeks-asylum-in-us.html…
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Meet ‘Flame,’ The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers
Meet ‘Flame,’ The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware named Flame has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 Among Flame’s many modules is one that turns on the internal…
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Pentagon contractor admits to propaganda campaign against USA Today journalists
Link: Pentagon contractor admits to propaganda campaign against USA Today journalists | Poynter.
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You have a right to remain recording
You have a right to remain recording Carlos Miller’s crusade for freedom of photography via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/you_have_a_right_to_remain_rec.php?page=all For the past five years, Carlos Miller, a former newspaper reporter, has covered incidents and issues surrounding the public’s right to record the police. Miller’s blog, which he refers to as PINAC, began as a hobby,…
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London cops want to suck your phone dry in an instant
London cops want to suck your phone dry in an instant The Met, London’s police force, is buying “mobile device data extraction” devices that can suck all the data out of your phone “in minutes” — that’s where … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/17/london-cops-want-to-suck-your.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops
Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with a strong statement supporting the First Amendment right of individuals to via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/doj-supports-right-to-record/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 Last year, the…
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Illinois Barred From Enforcing Police Eavesdropping Law
Illinois Barred From Enforcing Police Eavesdropping Law Citing First Amendment issues, a federal appeals court is barring Illinois from enforcing a law prohibiting the audio-recording of police officers. The decision Tuesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes two weeks ahead of a NATO summit in Chi via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/illinois-police-eavesdroppin/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 “The Illinois eavesdropping…
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7th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Right to Record in Public
7th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Right to Record in Public – NPPA Advocacy Committee The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging via NPPA…
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Fire. Power.
Fire. Power. — duckrabbit From the Anarchist News “Photographers were continually confronted throughout the demo. These vultures not only put people at very… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/05/fire-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 it must be made unequivocally clear: journalists are f*cking enemies.” “………………….To our enemies: if we won’t hesitate to directly confront hundreds of cops and to destroy property, what…
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Mexico Photographers Found Dead in Veracruz State
Three Photographers Found Dead in Mexico Days after the murder of a magazine reporter, the bodies of three photojournalists were found dismembered Thursday in the eastern state of Veracruz. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/world/americas/mexico-photographers-found-dead-in-veracruz-state.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all The bodies of the three photojournalists were discovered on World Press Freedom Day and less than a week after Mexico’s Congress approved a law…
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Black Bloc Occupy protesters attack media, photographers during May Day rally
Link: Metro “I had a couple people make grabs for my gear,” Muncy told Buzzfeed. “They just didn’t want their pictures taken.” “One girl walks up to one of the photogs and nailed him right in the face,” Muncy said. “He popped her right back.” Muncy told Buzzfeed the photographer was Lucas Jackson of Reuters.
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Police Intimidation Watch: Miami-Dade Police Monitoring Activist Photographer
Police Intimidation Watch: Miami-Dade Police Monitoring Activist Photographer | PDNPulse Photographer Carlos Miller, owner of the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, has learned that the Miami-Dade Police Department is watching him like, well, police states watch dissidents, just looking for reasons to arrest him. Miller, who has been a tireless via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/05/police-intimidation-watch-miami-dade-police-monitoring-activist-photographer.html Photographer…
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Fight for Your Right: Resources for Photographers Covering Protests
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/30/day-of-action/#1 There are several resources available for photographers who encounter trouble with the law. Here are just a few
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Cops can be sued for arresting people who record them in public – new law in Connecticut
Cops can be sued for arresting people who record them in public – new law in Connecticut “The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow citizens to sue police officers who arrest them for recording in public, apparently the first of its kind in the nation… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/cops-can-be-sued-for-arresting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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LA Times delayed publication of Afghan corpse photos at Pentagon’s request
Link: Poynter When we made the decision to publish, the Pentagon asked us to wait 24 additional hours to protect troops depicted in the photographs. We agreed to push back our publication date until the Pentagon told us they had taken the necessary precautions. In fact, we waited more than 72 hours after their request.
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Olympic Games will be live streamed liberally, but there are strict rules for photography, social media
Link: Poynter The guards refused to let Walker leave immediately. The incident, he writes, ended after the security guards “called police, who also asked to see the video footage, citing the Terrorism Act. The reporter was allowed to leave after neither he nor the police could properly operate the camera to replay the footage.”
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Does Homeland Security Target Journalists for Search and Seizure?
Does Homeland Security Target Journalists for Search and Seizure? | PDNPulse An article published yesterday by Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald details the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated questioning and harassment of an American filmmaker when she has attempted to reenter the country after traveling overseas. According to G via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/does-homeland-security-target-journalists-for-search-and-seizure.html Agents often wait for documentary…