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Yet Another Study Shows Red Light Cameras Cause More Accidents And Aren't Needed

Over and over again, we’ve seen studies that have shown that red light cameras tend to increase, not decrease auto accidents, and certainly don’t do much to improve safety. The Agitator points us to...

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TV Broadcasters Looking At Public Safety As Justification For Next Government...

Plenty of broadcasters are still upset over the digital TV transition, in which they lost their analog spectrum rights — rights which they never had to pay for — as the FCC sought to reclaim it and put...

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The Current Surveillance State Is The End Result Of Two Consecutive...

The escalating build-out of the American surveillance state since 9/11 can’t be attributed to any one factor. There have been several contributors, most of which have used the omnipresent “threat” of...

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How The Dream Of Spying More On The Public With Cameras Will Likely Decrease...

Marcus Ranum wrote “Information security’s response to bitter failure, in any area of endeavour, is to try the same thing that didn’t work — only harder.” It seems that this often applies to the entire...

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FBI Director Continues His Attack On Technology, Privacy And Encryption

FBI Director James Comey has doubled down on his basic attack on technology and privacy with a speech at the Brookings Institution entitled “Going Dark: Are Technology, Privacy, and Public Safety on a...

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Proposed Spanish Law Would Make Online Calls For Street Demonstrations, And...

Techdirt has been highlighting the growing problem of police militarization in the US for a while, and its huge impact on basic rights like free speech. But over in Spain, the government has taken a...

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Research Paper Shows Militarized SWAT Teams Don't Make Cops — Or The Public —...

A study has been released confirming what many have suspected: militarization of law enforcement doesn’t make communities safer, has zero effect on officer safety, and is rarely deployed as advertised...

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Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting For The FCC, FTC To Punish Verizon For...

We’ve noted how the telecom industry been having great success in the Trump era eliminating FCC, FTC, and state authority over telecom monopolies. The underlying industry justification is that gutting...

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Court Says FCC Can't Stop States From Protecting Net Neutrality

Today a federal appeals court delivered a decidedly mixed decision in the FCC’s ongoing quest to kill net neutrality and telecom sector oversight. On the one hand, the new 2-1 ruling by the US Court...

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Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts...

Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme court of the United...

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