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Welsh nightclubs to fingerprint customers
Clubgoers in South Wales are to be fingerprinted, with the resulting biometric data to be retained indefinitely. The scheme is "voluntary" -- unless local councils make it a licensing condition for...
View ArticleSurreptitious recording of a stop-question-and-frisk in New York
The New York police department conducts 1800 stop-question-and-frisks every day. This video contains an audio recording of a couple of Officer Friendlies conducting a stop-and-frisk on a Harlem teen...
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SWAT team injures 12-year-old girl with flash grenade - no drugs found
Radley Balko says: "Montana SWAT team drops a flash grenade through a window into a bedroom where two children are sleeping. No arrests. No alleged meth lab." A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one...
View ArticleCops raid free poker tournament
America, did you suddenly feel safer after masked police officers "in full riot gear" and "weapons drawn" raided an openly-advertised, no-money poker tournament at a Florida bar?
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TSA inspectors get a larger annual clothing allowance than Marine lieutenants...
TSA "officers" have a new deal: awesome new clothes to wear while they touch your genitals. Under their new collective bargaining agreement, Transportation Security Administration officers get to...
View ArticleDHS watchdog: DHS can search all your devices within 100 mi of US border
The DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties -- a watchdog that's supposed to keep the DHS in check -- has concluded that it's fine for the DHS to stop anyone within 100 miles of the US border,...
View ArticleRaytheon making social-network-mining software to help gov'ts spy on citizens
Raytheon's "RIOT" (Rapid Information Overlay Technology) is intended to help governments all over the world by providing a "Google for spies" that mines multiple online sources to build up detailed...
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What happened to David Mery, the techy who was arrested as a terrorist in a...
[Editor's note: I mentioned the arrest of technology editor David Mery in my recent Guardian column on Prism; he wrote in to correct some details and explain the astounding circumstances of how...
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Brown? In London? Papers please.
(Photo: NRBrizzle) In London today, members of the UK Border Agency were stopping people of color at various tube stations and demanding that they show identity papers. Several eyewitnesses confirmed...
View ArticleUK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime
David Miranda is journalist Glenn Greenwald's boyfriend, but he's best known for being detained under the Section 7 of the UK Terrorism Act while changing planes at Heathrow. The cops held Miranda for...
View ArticleSweden's telcos hand over mass spying powers to police, tax authority,...
Under a new, extra-legal voluntary arrangement, Swedish telcos will turn over detailed call records, location data, and billing information to a wide variety of government agencies, including the tax...
View ArticleTwo people jailed for a month while their soap was tested for drugs
Annadel Cruz and Alexander Bernstein spent one month in a Pennsylvania jail while their soap was tested for cocaine. They were released when the laboratory test results revealed the soap to be free of...
View ArticleInnocent caretaker of disabled child humiliated in botched sex sting
Ted Balaker says: During an undercover pubic restroom sex sting, police in Manhattan Beach, California tackled, arrested, and interrogated an innocent man, seized his property without probable cause...
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Officer who forced dozens of anal cavity searches for fun gets only 2 years...
This gentleman violently inserted his finger into dozens of victims' anuses. Sometimes his friends held guns to the victims' heads to force them to comply. Why was he sentenced to just two years in...
View ArticleFederal Court: No suspicion needed for laptop searches at border
A US Federal Court sided with the "DHS Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Impact Assessment of its electronics search policy, concluding that suspicionless searches do not violate the First or Fourth...
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Ukraine slides into full-blown dictatorship with brutal new law
(click for full) Despite the valiant efforts of the motley opposition in Ukraine, the tame Ukrainian Parliament has passed a brutal law that slides the country into full-on dictatorship. Forbidden...
View ArticleMilitarized police kill 80-year-old man in his own bed. No meth found
Zach Weissmueller says: A few years ago, I shared with you a video about the pattern of police raids on private property happening in California's Antelope Valley. Well, a rather tragic and...
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Nevada deputy who took $50,000 from a man ordered to return it
In September 2013 Tan Nguyen was pulled over by Nevada Deputy Sgt. Lee Dove for driving 78 MPH in a 75 MPH zone. Deputy Dove asked Nguyen for permission to search the car and Nguyen consented to the...
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Albuquerque police chief OKs shooting of homeless man who ran from flash grenade
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View Article10 facts about the SWATification of the US
SWAT team raids in the US have gone up 25-fold since 1980. Time's recent article about the militarization of the police reports that "the federal government has funneled $4.3 billion of military...
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