Comment Re:Title Correction (Score 1) 76
LOL yay thats a blast from the past.
Comment Re:Meanwhile Congress just passed SOPA in secret (Score 1) 176
too late
Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them 515
MobyDisk writes: A lawsuit was filed yesterday over a case in which a woman was arrested for recording the police from her car while stopped in traffic. Ars Technica writes, "Police erased the 135-second recording from the woman's phone, but it was recovered from her cloud account according to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City lawsuit, which seeks $7 million."
Baltimore police lost a similar case against Anthony Graber in 2010 and another against Christopher Sharp in 2014. The is happening so often in Baltimore that in 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the police reminding them that they cannot stop recordings, and most certainly cannot delete them.
Local awareness of this issue is high since the the Mayor and the City Council support requiring police body cameras. The city council just passed a bill requiring them, but the mayor is delaying implementation until a task force determines how best to go about it. The country is also focused on police behavior in light of the recent cases in Ferguson and New York, the latter of which involved a citizen recording.
So the mayor, city council, police department policies, courts, and federal government are all telling police officers to stop doing this. Yet it continues to happen, and in a rather violent matter. What can people do to curb this problem?
Baltimore police lost a similar case against Anthony Graber in 2010 and another against Christopher Sharp in 2014. The is happening so often in Baltimore that in 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the police reminding them that they cannot stop recordings, and most certainly cannot delete them.
Local awareness of this issue is high since the the Mayor and the City Council support requiring police body cameras. The city council just passed a bill requiring them, but the mayor is delaying implementation until a task force determines how best to go about it. The country is also focused on police behavior in light of the recent cases in Ferguson and New York, the latter of which involved a citizen recording.
So the mayor, city council, police department policies, courts, and federal government are all telling police officers to stop doing this. Yet it continues to happen, and in a rather violent matter. What can people do to curb this problem?
Comment Re:NSA "Made in China" ?? (Score 1) 379
wow an AC that has a valid point.
Comment Re:Please use Blackberry as the backbone (Score 1) 209
that is also true for blackberry and has been always. not just something that was a reaction but rather a design. The design is for the Enterprise which is the use case scenario here.
Granted BB may not be long in the world so maybe use their design as a basis for some new deployment rather than use BB. but the others... fahhhhh
Comment Re:enjoy! (Score 1) 209
nope didn't get federal health care at all, still in the hands of private sector.
Comment Re:Please use Blackberry as the backbone (Score 1) 209
as opposed to open door policy by others?
Comment Re:Wow ... (Score 1) 209
so what is the answer.
If congress is lied to or congress instead lies it self and there is no repercussion to any one... all that means is that the system is fucked. what next?
Comment Re:Senator John McCain (Score 1) 772
hey thanks, your post has clarified the very definition of an asshole.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 772
that would explain the why "some" senators are condemning this report.
Comment Re:But can you trust them? (Score 1) 33
I was more pointing to the fact that during G. W. Bush's term, it was infact the office of the VP that instigated (and if you believe) pushed the NSA to get EVERYTHING. And when the question of constitutionality of the surveillance was mentioned it was the white house counsel that signed the documents making it "seem" all legal when the Attorney General refused to go along.
The question is not about technical design, because if there is the will to force the issue, Technical design is slave just to money. I guess technically some one in NSA IT could have refused to implement such systems, and then been pushed aside, blacklisted or worse, and watch from side lines as others fall over themselves to make it happen.
It is political will that decides which liberties to piss upon. IT is just holding the dick.
Comment Re:Courts? (Score 1) 83
one outta four, well i guess that's something.
Comment Re:But can you trust them? (Score 2) 33
great let me know what Dick Cheney (or anyone else in power making the actual decision) says about your points. O wait, your points are not listened to by decision makers. Any consumer/citizen protection or privacy is overruled and all tracking is on by default.
thanks for trying though, I really appreciate the thought.
Comment Re:Courts? (Score 3, Funny) 83
you probably also read the "foreign" incorrectly
Comment Re:Clarification: expires June 2015, law says cour (Score 1) 83
and neither of them have any knowledge or clue as to what is actually happening and if it is actually worth keeping the program.
