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ACLU releases Android app that secretly videos police

The advent of Police Tape is designed to counter a practice an increasing number of civilians have encountered over the past few years: those who videotape or photograph police officers performing routine stops and other official acts are frequently arrested or disciplined. Evidently, many officers are all in favor of increased surveillance as long as it isn’t turned on them.

(Source: Ars Technica)

SOPA opponents unveil "Digital Bill of Rights"

Issa and Wyden created the Digital Bill of Rights because they were concerned about what seemed like a legal oxymoron: lawmakers trying to regulate the Internet without understanding how individuals use it.

“Government is flying blind, interfering and regulating without understanding even the basics,”

(Source: Ars Technica)

Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA, ruling it Unconstitutional

catmartini:

Success! I’m so glad Occupy issues are being brought to court — it’s one of the main ways laws get changed in the U.S. — And considering how ineffective our politicians are, it may be our only hope. 

#A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block the so-called “Homeland Battlefield” provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism, ruling it unconstitutional. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges filed the suit along with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir, Occupy London organizer Kai Wargalla, and Alexa O’Brien, an organizer for U.S. Day of Rage. They call themselves the Freedom Seven.

#RT points out that a repeal of the Homeland Battlefield provision would only protect American citizens from arbitrary arrest; citizens the world over would still face indefinite detention.

#The day after the injunction was issued, the House voted down an amendment to the NDAA that would have blocked the Homeland Battlefield provisions

http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/05/occupied-reports-from-the-front-lines-11/

More from the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-national-defense-authorization-ruling-20120518,0,2046039.story

Court blocks Illinois law used to charge those who video police officers

“The act of making an audio or audiovisual recording is necessarily included within the First Amendment’s guarantee of speech and press rights as a corollary of the right to disseminate the resulting recording,” wrote the two-judge majority in a Tuesday decision.

(Source: Ars Technica)

Judge declares warrantless cellphone tracking unconstitutional

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)