Never seen so many cops in Belmont before. Civil liberties aside, plz don't be stupid and drink'n'drive.

Civil liberties alert! They are setting up a DUI checkpoint on NB El Camino at the Belmont Caltrain station (JSO Ralston)

EFF lawsuit reveals US improperly collected data on citizens
This week, the US Homeland Security department, Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting, in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the...

EFF lawsuit reveals US improperly collected data on citizens
This week, the US Homeland Security department, Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting, in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the...

If civil liberties matter, he's weak about them. The weaker he is about something, the more it needs a strong hand instead.

Fear of a Gitmo Planet
It's hard to listen the GOP reaction to President Obama's decision to move the detainees to a nearly empty prison in Thomson, Illinois, without cringing at their statements. After the US government has tried and sentenced so many maniacs, hard-core...

Francis Davey: Government wants new powers to block wikileaks and squeeze web tv
"What astonishes me is that there is no obligation for the Secretary of STate to even publish such an order, let alone subject it to the scrutiny of Parliament, yet he could fundamentally change the way the internet operates using it. Other orders...

Police terror photography 'U turn': ACPO letter revealed IN FULL - Amateur Photographer
"This is a copy of a letter sent by the Association of Chief Police Officers to Chief Constables and Commissioners across England and Wales over the weekend"

How to Flex Your Rights During Police Encounters
Flex Your Rights (FYR), a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, was launched in 2002. Our mission is to educate the public about how basic Bill of Rights protections apply during encounters with law enforcement. To accomplish this, we create and distribute...

Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain...

RT @AdamSerwer: I'll be on the Young Turks radio show around 820 tonight talking Dems and civil liberties #privacy #fisa

The death of the URL
PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth,...

@msbellows damn aclu types...always standing up for our civil liberties...bastards

Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.

Twitter users: young, metropolitan and angry about civil liberties http://bit.ly/1lzXqT

TSA Fixes Search Policy After ACLU Sues - http://bit.ly/1Iovik A win for civil liberties!

The death of the URL
PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth,...

The death of the URL
PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth,...