Law enforcement accesses increasingly massive facial recognition databases with few legal standards

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image credit: AV-1/Flickr

image credit: AV-1/Flickr

BY Madison Ruppert Activist Post ccording to a new report, the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program isn’t all Americans have to be concerned about. Searchable facial recognition databases are growing increasingly massive and few legal safeguards are in place. Facial recognition systems in the United States are on the rise thanks to a wide variety of initiatives including [...]

 

 

 

8 NEW THINGS WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT MUSIC

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Music works deep into our brains. Photo courtesy of Flickr user antonkawasaki

Music works deep into our brains. Photo courtesy of Flickr user antonkawasaki

In one those strange twists of modern life, we were reminded last week of the power of music–at a hockey game. It was at Boston’s TD Garden, two days after the explosions that contorted so many lives, and as singer Rene Rancourt began the Star Spangled Banner before the game between the hometown Bruins and [...]

 

 

Video: Photographer Arrested by NYPD for Taking Pictures

 
 

A citizen photographer, Randall Thomas, was filming and taking pictures while standing on a pubic sidewalk when threatened aggressively by the NYPD with arrest. According to the video evidence an “incompetent” police officer approached the camera wielding citizen Thomas, telling him, “You are making a lot of people uncomfortable… I got another 8 hours, I’ll follow you all [...]

 

 

Cop Hits Girl With Motorcycle Then Shoots and Kills Angry Dad

 
 

Moments after his motorcycle struck a 4-year-old girl, an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot and killed the girl’s irate father after he allegedly attacked the officer, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden identified the officer as a 43-year-old veteran of the Chicago Police. The officer was headed home on [...]

 

Who is Edward Snowden?

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In the video-interview (below) published by The Guardian, one receives a sensation of calmness, intelligence and even gentleness from this young man. It seems almost hard to believe that he is the person responsible for what some have labeled ‘the most important leak of secret government files in the history of the United States of [...]