Showing posts with label Surveillance Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surveillance Society. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Bail reform saves lives, "The Ogg Blog," pay-per-surveillance, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Kim Ogg oppo blog launched The Justice Collaborative has launched T...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

'A Very Carpenter Christmas'

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From the intro to the latest Reasonably Suspicious  podcast , apropos of Christmas Eve, please enjoy 'A Very Carpenter Christmas,' a...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Christmas and the Surveillance State: December Reasonably Suspicious podcast

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Check out the December edition of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, covering Texas criminal justice policy and politics. Two...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Training too late, parsing crime data, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends which merit Grits readers attention but may not make it into independent posts: Trooper who shot unarmed schi...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Beating (up) Devon Anderson, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends which haven't made it into independent posts but merit Grits readers' attention: Beating (up) Devon A...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

EFF: License plate readers shift traffic enforcement priorities to debt collection

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday offered Grits an "I told you so" regarding legislation passed last year allowing Tex...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

AT&T: Historical cell-phone location data provides 'detailed and intimate portrayal of the targeted person’s daily habits and work and leisure routines'

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At a hearing Wednesday evening on HB 2263 by Rep. Bryan Hughes requiring warrants for the government to access personal location data from ...
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Friday, December 05, 2014

McCraw: Terrorist threat at Texas border a myth, or, In favor of reality-based border-security policy: A minority view

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The dumbest part of Texas' border "surge": There are no, none, zilch, zero viable metrics for measuring success. It's a tr...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Roundup: Of atonement, prison bankers, pot and imaginary terrorists

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Lots going on and I won't have time to write about all of it. Here are several items clogging my web browser that merit Grits readers at...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Companies selling government detailed location data

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At the Washington Post we find an article titled " For Sale: Systems that can secretly track where cell phone users go around the globe...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Reshuffling chairs benefits cell-phone privacy bill in Texas Senate

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If, like me, you're prone to indulging in political tea-leaf reading, here's some potentially good news for Texans who favor keepi...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Police tech roundup

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Here are several items related to policing tech that caught my eye today: Speeding and Tweeting Cops in Keller, TX are posting on Twitter...
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Saturday, March 01, 2014

Police surveillance at schools: Doubling down on stupid

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"Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should...
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Drone Civil Disobedience?

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Image via Wikipedia Regular readers will recall Grits was no great fan of Texas' new statute regulating unmanned aircraft passed in...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Costs of constant police surveillance plummet thanks to cell-phone tech

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The cost of surveillance has plummeted in the era of cell-phone location tracking, reported Andy Greenberg at Forbes . His Jan. 9 article ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Electronic Privacy Roundup: What can states do to rein in NSA phone surveillance?

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Here are a few recent items related to electronic privacy that may interest Grits readers: Check out a recent GAO report titled,  " I...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Why 'privacy is a conservative cause'

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Sentiments like these from conservative direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie on Politico (10-31) are among the reasons Grits thinks America ma...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

On the dangers and pitfalls of diminished electronic privacy

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With the national press closely tracking the blow-by-blow, this blog has not been closely following revelations about NSA data gathering on ...
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Sunday, October 06, 2013

Houston mayoral candidate promises to "just barely" uphold the Constitution

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It's been several election cycles since we've seen crime become an election issue in a major Texas city, so it will be interesting t...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

With AT&T's 'Hemisphere' program, formerly 'Hudson Hawk,' high-dollar phone surveillance goes local

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Several readers forwarded me a link to a New York Times story titled, " Drug agents use vast phone trove eclipsing N.S.A.'s ."...
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