Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is saying that four cops near New Haven, Connecticut bullied Hispanic residents of a quaint suburb in a multitude of cases and have now arrested the officers for their actions.
Via rt.com
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Syria, Bahrain and Yemen get worst ever rankings. US falls 27 places to 47th.
Via en.rsf.org
The father of free software philosophy spoke to RT on evil developers, spying social networks, the almost-legitimacy of Anonymous hacks and the condition under which he would take a proprietary program and a million dollars.
“You’re A Creep, Charlie Brown!” (by Robbieyulfo)
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement are just as pernicious as anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan.
Via forbes.com
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As former FBI agent Mike German told the New York Times: “These are investigations against completely innocent people that are now bound up within the F.B.I.’s intelligence system forever. Is that the best way for the F.B.I. to use its resources?”
Via privacysos.org
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TO CLARIFY, since many people seem to think we were staging some sort of one man protest inside the supreme court, we were NOT PROTESTING!
Via youtube.com
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Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21–or face the consequences including contempt of court.
Via news.cnet.com
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Convicted of developing software used on a porn site, Iran’s Supreme Court confirms the death sentence to Saeed Malekpour.
Via news.cnet.com
