FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts With License Plate Readers | American Civil Liberties Union

By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 7:15pm The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents obtained by the ACLU…

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Islamophobic Bus Ads In San Francisco Are Being Defaced With Kamala Khan

Well, this is just brilliant. Racist adverts promoting hatred against Muslims are currently being run on buses in San Francisco – but someone has started covering them up with anti-hatred messages from Marvel’s première Muslim superhero, Ms. Marvel. The adverts were purchased by the American branch of the Freedom Defence Initiative – who, here in…

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The Dread Pirate’s Diary

Illustrations by Susie Cagle. I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life, and it would be good to have a detailed account of it. — from Ross Ulbricht’s laptop, home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1     When Ross Ulbricht, the alleged operator of a massive online drugs black market, was arrested on October 1,…

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Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it – video | Comment is free | The Guardian

Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new…

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Exclusive: Potential Alibi Witness for Convicted Murderer in ‘Serial’ Breaks Silence With New Affidavit | TheBlaze.com

The former classmate of Adnan Syed’s who could hold the key to unraveling his conviction in the murder of Hae Min Lee has written a new affidavit reasserting that she was with Syed at the exact time the state argued that he killed his ex-girlfriend in 1999, and alleging that… Exclusive: Potential Alibi Witness for Convicted…

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