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Prosecutors last month indicted Mr. Park Kyung-shin for including a picture of a naked man on a blog post that discussed South Korea’s obscenity rules. The picture, which was not sexual in nature, was of a kind that might be found in medical or sex-education materials. But Mr. Park noted that it was the type of picture that was being ordered removed in from Korean web sites in an uneven application of obscenity laws.
Via blogs.wsj.com

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Out near the city’s edge, where fast-food joints and subdivisions seem to spring from farmland overnight, the casualties of an unfinished war sit untouched in a doctor’s basement.
Via latimes.com

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Two new investigations confirm ongoing CIA civilian deaths in Pakistan.  
Via thebureauinvestigates.com

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Shanti Gurung had accused her employer, Neena Malhotra, who at the time was “serving as the Counselor of Press, Culture, Information, Education, and Community Affairs at the Consulate General of India in Manhattan” of slavery. She had come to New York city in 2006 to work as a domestic help, according to court documents.
Via firstpost.com

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San Francisco – A federal appeals court has found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the first time an appellate court has ruled the 5th Amendment protects against forced decryption – a major victory for constitutional rights in the digital age.
Via eff.org

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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials’ practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil liberties group that said taxpayers have shelled out more than $11 million to a private contractor to analyze online comments that “reflect adversely” on the federal government.
Via huffingtonpost.com

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Reports and interviews with officials by AP reporters reveal that money from a White House drug war program partially funded the intelligence division responsible for ethnically and religiously profiling and spying on Muslims throughout the northeast. The NYPD spying program against Muslims largely continues to this day, operating with public approval from Mayor Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly.
Via privacysos.org

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On March 22, 2012, a federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, will enter a groundbreaking consent decree, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, banning the horrendous practice of subjecting kids convicted as adults to solitary confinement. What’s more, the decree will require the state to move such kids out of the brutally violent privately run prison where they are currently housed and transfer them to a stand-alone facility operated in accordance with juvenile justice standards rather than the far harsher adult correctional standards currently applied to them.  
Via aclu.org

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This week, the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development, deployment and operation of a “National Level URL Filtering and Blocking System,” calling on institutions to submit by March 2nd a feasible proposal that would allow the government to institute a large-scale filtering system.
Via eff.org

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Prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay have informed some attorneys defending “war on terror” detainees that their clients could be removed from the indefinite detention list and eventually released from the prison facility if they agree to cooperate and testify against certain prisoners selected for prosecution before the tribunals, according to emails obtained by Truthout and interviews with a half-dozen military defense lawyers who were briefed about the discussions.
Via truth-out.org