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The Counted: U.S. Police Have Killed 1,000 People In 2015
A man fatally shot in Oakland over the weekend was also the 183rd death by police recorded this year in California – by far the greatest total of any state.
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In Aftermath of Paris Carnage, Suspects Are Still On the Run
As Paris mourned the attacks' 132 victims at a special mass at Notre Dame Cathedral, French police identified one of the gunmen involved in the assault.
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Journalists Lash Out Against Proposed Laws Restricting UK Press Freedom
Britain's media has been flooded with petitions, emotional speeches and general confusion about the government's proposed changes to Freedom of Information requests, which signal a chilling of press freedom.
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Not So Securus: Massive Hack Of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Is a Constitutional Violation
An enormous cache of phone records from Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation's prisons and jails, may be the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern U.S. history.
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Spies At School: F.B.I. "Puppet" Program Would Train Students To Identify Extremism
The agency has delayed the launch of its counterradicalization website amid an uproar from Muslim activists and civil rights groups, who say the program will institutionalize discriminatory profiling of Muslim youths.
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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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Blue Canary In the Coal Mine: Why Is Twitter Rolling Out New Censorship Tools?
To many, the Internet is seen as a largely unregulated open marketplace of ideas and speech, where absent any outright violations of law, violations of website terms of service (TOS), or statements made in a directly dangerous and threatening way, comm
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Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill With Huge Privacy Flaws – A Backdoor to Surveillance
Privacy advocates demanded Congress kill or reform a bill they say hides new government surveillance mechanisms in the guise of security protections – but the Senate passed CISA on Tuesday.
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Number of U.S. Police Officers Charged In Fatal Shootings Hits 10-Year High
Public outrage over the killing of black men by police in New York, Missouri and elsewhere have spurred prosecutions, and body cameras and bystanders' videos also helped bring cases – but still only a small percentage resulted in charges.
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Drones, IBM and the Big Data of Death
A study produced for the Defense Department by IBM consultants opens a window into the deep guts of the military-industrial complex, where the technologies of assassination and corporate sales converge.
