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THE UNITED STATES V. TAREK MEHANNA
“Mehanna’s alleged advocacy of the jihad against the U.S. cannot itself be considered ‘material support’ for terrorism.” Opening arguments began last Thursday at Boston’s Moakley Federal Courthouse in...
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#OCCUPY EXCERPTS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRIOT ACT!
In case you didn’t get your slice of cake and national security letter invitation to the parade, last week marked the tenth happy return of the USA PATRIOT Act (“Uniting and Strengthening America by...
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THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT: SOPA AND PIPA
With debate on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) slated to begin in the House on December 15, we caught up with James O’Keefe, Captain of the Massachusetts Pirate Party, to talk about the Pirates and their...
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RAMMING SPEED: SOPA AND THE BATTLE FOR THE INTERNET
Hearings on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the House Judiciary Committee began last Thursday under a hail of public outcry and massive online mobilization by national groups like the Electronic...
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NDAA: THE DEVIL’S IN THE AMBIGUITY
On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. While the thousand-page document is predominantly a military spending...
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A COMMONWEALTH OF KINK
To peruse the General Laws of our fairest commonwealth is to journey back to a Puritanical yore, to a time when “crimes against chastity” apparently weighed so heavily on the legislative conscience as...
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U.S. SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH ALLEGED BOSTON CRACK DEALER, SAYS COPS CAN’T...
In a unanimous decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that police generally can’t search a suspect’s cell phone for evidence without a warrant. The ruling was a victory for civil liberties...
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BOSTON TROLLING (PART I): YOU PARTIED HARD AT BOSTON CALLING AND THERE’S...
BY CHRIS FARAONE, KENNETH LIPP & JONATHAN RILEY Nobody at either day of last year’s debut Boston Calling partied with much expectation of privacy. With an army of media photographers, selfie...
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BOSTON TROLLING (PART II): SMARTER CITY OR CITY UNDER SURVEILLANCE?
BY CHRIS FARAONE, KENNETH LIPP & JONATHAN RILEY Last week the Dig alerted readers to a secret experiment carried out by the City of Boston during the Boston Calling concerts that took place in May...
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FREE RADICAL: THE DEEP ROOTS OF THE PROBLEM IN FERGUSON
Image via Reuters America reacts to atrocities like the murder of Michael Brown by Missouri police officer Darren Wilson. In the face of such tragedies, factions quickly draw themselves into various...
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You partied hard at Boston Calling and there's facial recognition data to prove it
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BOSTON TROLLING (PART I): YOU PARTIED HARD AT BOSTON CALLING AND THERE’S...
BY CHRIS FARAONE, KENNETH LIPP & JONATHAN RILEY Nobody at either day of last year’s debut Boston Calling partied with much expectation of privacy. With an army of media photographers, selfie...
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AU CONTRAIRE GRANDE FRERE: MASS OFFICIALS SAY THERE’S NO THREAT AT HOME...
Image by Chris Faraone It’s sick to think that in the wake of horrors like those which unfolded in Paris, France last week, some people are snapping on their party hats. I’m not talking about...
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THE YEAR IN MASS SURVEILLANCE
Image by Tak Toyoshima I run a sturdy volunteer group of cypherpunks, Democrats, libertarians, Republicans, and anarchists that meets weekly in Cambridge to plot ways to undermine the surveillance...
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DEAR READER: RIP NAT HENTOFF, BUT A WIN FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES IN BOSTON
Nat Hentoff photographed by Jill Krementz In our last two issues of 2016, we hurled everything from civil liberties defenses to descriptive insults (i.e. “liar”) at Boston Police Department brass,...
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MIGHTY FOURTH: AN INTERVIEW WITH CIVIL LIBERTIES CRUSADER ALEX MARTHEWS
With surveillance issues such as police body cameras in the news of late and other related topics like the use of facial recognition not in the news nearly enough, I recently interviewed civil...
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THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING
Photo by Kori Feener Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk...
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Boston Calling attendees didn’t know they were all unwitting test subjects for a sophisticated new event monitoring platform. We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras....
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It’s never easy criticizing vigilant Big Brother while the crime scene is still bloody.
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