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Police State
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How California's “Kill Switch” Law on Cell Phones Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests
The California bill signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown this week allows government to disrupt communications under certain guidelines – but includes an “emergency” exception that requires no independent approval.
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UC Study: Police Often Provoke Protest Violence – Not the Other Way Around
From clashes during the Occupy movement to violence this month in Ferguson, Mo., researchers say protests get ugly when officers use aggressive tactics, dress in riot gear and line up like military.
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The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records.
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Pay Up or Do Time: Alabama’s Private Probation Industry
Alabamians who can't pay a fine may end up in a vicious cycle of fees and even jail time – and someone's profiting.
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U.S. Military Bans The Intercept Fearing Further Leaks of Government Secrets
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps staff have been prohibited from reading stories published by The Intercept because they may contain classified information from a "potential new leaker."
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Honoring Slain Alex Nieto, San Francisco Marches In Solidarity with Ferguson
Five months after the police killing of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, protesters are returning to the streets Friday to demand justice – from San Francisco to Ferguson, Missouri.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part IV
New but little-known Pentagon directives authorize the use of armed drones against American citizens in the homeland in the context of domestic emergencies.
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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part III
Arizona State University’s Defense Department-sponsored data-mining algorithms would enhance CIA "signature" drone strike targeting.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part II
Groups engaged in activism for social change are susceptible to being ranked higher on the radicalism threat-scale by the Pentagon's Minerva research program.
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Ferguson’s Citizen Journalists Reveal the Value of Filming the Police
Until police stop treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy.
