Category: Access & Censorship
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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…
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LA Times delayed publication of Afghan corpse photos at Pentagon’s request
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
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 filmmaker Laura Poitras at the door as she disembarks from international flights. Poitras, a US citizen, has been interrogated for hours, had her personal belongings and reporter’s notebooks seized, held and copied, and her laptop, phone and other devices searched and copied
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Yesterday’s AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers
AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers – Reading The Pictures
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today fail to understand why such scenes would be even be relevant to see.
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today actually fail to understand why such scenes would even be important or relevant to see.
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Going undercover with the Panasonic GH2 – By Sky News shooter Andy Portch
No lights, no tripod and no mucking about. That’s how we continued our coverage of the growing Tibetan unrest in Western China.
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Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street
Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street | PDNPulse
A freelance photographer arrested last fall while covering police action at the Occupy protest in Richmond, Virginia has reportedly agreed to complete 50 hours of community service in exchange for having prosecutors drop trespassing charges against him. P
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Boston paying $170k for videography arrest
Boston paying $170k for videography arrest – NPPA Advocacy Committee
The Boston Globe is reporting that the City of Boston has paid $170,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against them after they arrested a man for photographing police activity on the Boston Commons. The underlying case was the subject of an earlie
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/03/27/boston-paying-170k-for-recording-arrest/
An attorney who believed that the officers might be using excessive force, Simon Glik began recording with his cell phone. Police arrested Glik and charged him with, among other things, violations of the wiretap statute
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Las Vegas police agree to pay $100,000 to beaten videographer
The payment would settle the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Mitchell Crooks, whose video of the confrontation with officer Derek Colling became an Internet hit.
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A Sign of Restive Times: Policeman Punches Photojournalist
A Sign of Restive Times: Policeman Punches Photojournalist | PDNPulse
Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday. But the passage of several months makes it no less dramatic or shocking. And it rem
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/a-sign-of-restive-times-policeman-punches-photojournalist.html
Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday
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Israel Bans Use of Underweight Models
Israel Bans Use of Underweight Models | PDNPulse
Israel has passed a law that bans the use of “underweight” models in advertising, and mandates that ads that are retouched to make models appear thinner must include a disclaimer. According to reports, a fashion photographer and model agent named Adi Bark
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/israel-bans-use-of-underweight-models.html
“Force actual tests. Make girls go to a doctor. Get a system to follow girls who are found to be puking,”
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Iranian photographer Tahmineh Monzavi arrested
Link: British Journal of Photography
Tahmineh Monzavi, an Iranian photographer and director, has been arrested in her native country
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Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos
Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos
Writing in the NYT’s BITS section, Brian X. Chen and Nick Bilton describe a disturbing design-flaw in Android: apps can access and copy your private photos, without you ever having to grant t…
But increasingly these things are networked — we carry around location-sensitive, accelerometer-equipped A/V recording devices at all times (our phones). Adding network capability to these things means that design flaws, vulnerabilities and malicious code can all conspire to expose us to unprecedented privacy invasions
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Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail
Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail
HR437, “the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011” makes it illegal to protest in the vicinity of anyone who rates a Secret Service detail (even if you aren&#…
thus sparing politicians and VIPs the ugly and unseemly spectacle of having to confront voters who disagree with their policies
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Photographer William Daniels, Edith Bouvier Safe in Lebanon
Photographer William Daniels, Edith Bouvier Safe in Lebanon | PDNPulse
Agence France Presse reports that French photographer William Daniels has managed to escape from Homs, Syria to safety in Lebanon with French reporter Edith Bouvier. The two journalists had been trapped in the besieged city for more than a week. Bouvier’s
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/photographer-william-daniels-edith-bouvier-safe-in-lebanon.html
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Groups assail bill making it a crime to film farm animals
Groups assail bill making it a crime to film farm animals
The Utah Humane Society and other advocacy groups oppose a bill that would make it a crime to v
via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53577671-79/bill-animal-public-lands.html.csp
The Utah Humane Society and other advocacy groups oppose a bill that would make it a crime to videotape or photograph agricultural operations without permission from owners, saying the legislation would have a chilling effect on stopping animal abuse and trample free-speech rights.
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13 Syrians die attempting to rescue foreign journalists in Homs
the ferocity of the attack scattered the rest of the group, Avaaz said. The three other journalists were forced to turn back and remain trapped in Bab Amr. Ten more activists escorting them were killed in the confused retreat into the neighborhood, which has come under sustained bombardment for the past 25 days
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Injured Photographer Paul Conroy Smuggled Out of Syria
Injured Photographer Paul Conroy Smuggled Out of Syria | PDNPulse
British photographer Paul Conroy, who was injured last week in an attack on a makeshift media center in Homs, Syria that killed two other journalists, has been smuggled to safety in Lebanon, the Associated Press reports. Syrian activists smuggled Conroy o
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/injured-photographer-paul-conroy-smuggled-out-of-syria.html
Syrian activists smuggled Conroy out last night. According to The Guardian, the activists came under attack while they were moving Conroy to safety and several of them died.
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White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak Cases
Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth
After promising to enhance whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers, the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act as a kind of ad hoc Official Secrets Act.
The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers