A Return to Authoritarianism in Egypt
Lawyers for human rights lawyer and journalist Hossam Bahgat have confirmed that Bahgat was detained Sunday by military officials, apparently in retaliation for…
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Police endanger civil rights with body camera policies, report says
"The only cities to earn uniformly negative results were Atlanta and Ferguson, a city the group chose to examine in the wake of the controversy following t…
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If We Want to Throw Body Cameras on Every Police Officer, We're Going to Need Better Laws
""Every department has room to improve, even the best in the nation," Harlan Yu, principal at civil rights consulting firm Upturn, told Mic. &quo…
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
"“This is a pretty big deal for law enforcement,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford fellow in computer science and law whose research into Google’s circumven…
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Always Watched | The Digital Shift 2015
"Neil M. Richards, Professor of law at Washington University School of Law, MO, explained that while the enduring values of privacy and free speech have al…
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Civil Rights Scorecard Analyzes Police Body Cameras, Governance
"Harlan Yu, principle with communications consultant Upturn, said that pre-report viewing -- viewing footage prior to the filing of an officer’s incident r…
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Civil rights group: Police failing to develop bodycam policies
"About a third of all departments do not make their policies public and readily available on the department's websites. And according to Harlan Yu, a t…
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Many Police Departments Have Dismal Body-Camera Laws
"Almost every department examined allowed officers to watch video of an incident before filing a report. This “gives officers an undue advantage over other…
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New UK law enforcement bill would prohibit effective encryption
Last week, the government of the United Kingdom proposed a bill that would codify and expand the surveillance powers afforded to UK intelligence and law enforce…
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How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
"Statistician Victoria Stodden has described the unique place personal computers hold in the history of science. They’re not just an instrument – like a te…
The Ethics Behind Driverless Cars
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Imagine yourself in the future for a moment riding in a driverless car. You see 10 pedestrians stroll into the street just a few yards ahead…
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Researchers have warned of the dangers of an augmented reality future
"Ryan Calo, who led the team, called the work difficult but crucial. "We had to come up with a process to blend the technical, legal, design and other…