The ACLU in California today released a free smart-phone app that allows people to send cellphone videos of police encounters to the ACLU, automatically—and the ACLU will preserve the video footage, even if the cops seize the phone and delete the video or destroy the phone. The app, “Mobile Justice CA,” works for both iPhones and Android users. It’s available at Apple’s App Store and at Google Play.

A video released of a white Israeli police officer attacking a black Israeli soldier in Tel Aviv on April 26 angered many in the Ethiopian Israeli community, which is disproportionately targeted by Israeli police. The video shows officers pushing Demas Fekadeh, an Ethiopian Israeli soldier, to the ground and beating him.

(30.April) Following an alleged racist incident of police brutality against an orthodox Ethiopian IDF soldier, the Ethiopian community in Israel took to the streets of Jerusalem in what was to be a peaceful protest, shutting down traffic and public transport in many parts of the city.

(27.April) Pakada told Channel 10 that he was riding his bicycle when he noticed the two officers.

He said that he asked them what they were up to and one of them confronted him and pushed him off his bike, saying, “I can do whatever I want.”

He said that the officer threatened to shoot him in the head, and that they only let up only after he backed away and lifted a rock.

This was the question posed to the researchers in 1971:

„Suppose you were an advisor to the head of the KGB, the Soviet Secret Police. Suppose you are given the assignment of designing a system for the surveillance of all citizens and visitors within the boundaries of the USSR. The system is not to be too obtrusive or obvious. What would be your decision?“

What amazing, unobtrusive surveillance system did they come up with? It wasn’t a network of intercepting every phone call or placing cameras on every street corner. They imagined an electronic funds transfer system, or EFTS—a system that looks strikingly similar to the debit card system we all use today.

Akt 3:

We are two students, both studying musicology at the Université Paris 8 and in the CRR 93 at Aubervilliers and the CRD at Gennevilliers [translator’s note : all located in the suburbs north of Paris]. After taking our baccalauréat exams at the end of high school, we left in September 2013 to spend a year living in Palestine. We gave and attended music classes (violin and flute) at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Ramallah and helped to create a music school in Jericho. This year we had decided to go back during our recent Easter break to see our friends again and to return to the places where we had spent time the previous year.

On Sunday April 19, we arrived at 2:30 AM at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv…

An intelligence time machine is a concept first articulated to me by network security expert Eric Rescorla. The idea is that there may be some point in the future when an intelligence analyst will wish he had collected some piece of intelligence in the past. But he can’t know today exactly what intelligence he may want in the future, so any selective collection method always leaves open the possibility that he may fail to collect what he will need. If instead he collects everything, he has effectively built himself a sort of time machine: in the future, he can go back and reprocess the data to find the intelligence he didn’t know he would need at the time it was collected.

The same idea — let’s do what we can and improve it later — was used to shove the original Patriot Act through Congress. It was used to justify the inadequate changes later made to the act, many of which made it more intrusive on Americans’ rights. In 2008, we got a “reform” of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that provided retroactive cover for the illegal surveillance of innocent Americans conducted under President George W. Bush behind the false flag of counterterrorism.

Nach dem Vorbild der USA soll jetzt auch in der EU ein Gesetz durchgepeitscht werden, dass eine „europäische Sicherheitsagenda“ für ein „Europäisches-Anti-Terror-Zentrum“ schafft.

Die sogenannte “Europäische Sicherheitsagenda” ist de facto eine Art Fünf-Jahres-Plan zur lückenlosen Überwachung europäischer Bürger, umfassende Vorratsdatenspeicherung inklusive.

In der sehr kurz gehaltenen öffentlichen Ankündigung aus Brüssel heißt es in nüchternen Worten:

“Die drei Hauptprioritäten der Europäischen Sicherheitsagenda sind die Bekämpfung von Terrorismus, organisiertem Verbrechen und Cyberkriminalität. Die Agenda wird die Grundlage für gemeinsamen Maßnahmen und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den EU-Institutionen und Agenturen, Mitgliedstaaten, der Zivilgesellschaft und internationalen Partnern bilden.”

Die Überwachung zivilgesellschaftlicher Kommunikationswege und der direkte Angriff auf die Privatsphäre der Bürger wird mit einem diffusen, angeblichen Kampf gegen Terrorismus und Kriminalität begründet.

He said that when a Pentagon work crew removed a special telephone installed in his home for after-hours secure communications, he found that his cable connection was accidentally cut at the same time — and he had lost all access to the outside world via Internet and TV.

Bürgerrechtler, Abgeordnete, Presse, Anwälte, 80 Millionen Menschen sehen in der Spionage-Affäre um den Bundesnachrichtendienst den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht.

Das heißt: Auf einer Cocktailparty schützt einen der Hintergrundlärm nicht mehr davor, abgehört zu werden.

(2009) 1: Know Your Audience
– What Is a Mental Model?
– Mental Models and the Confirmation Bias
Example: The Confirmation Bias and Climate Change
– How To Identify and Update Mental Models about Climate Change
Example: A Common Mental Model about the Ozone Layer and Greenhouse Gases

„The US air safety authority has issued a warning and maintenance order over a software bug that causes a complete electric shutdown of Boeing’s 787 and potentially “loss of control” of the aircraft.“

Das kennen wir schon, wie das aussieht, wenn der Generalbundesanwalt was prüft. Verarschen kann ich mich selber.

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#BND

Laut Staatsanwaltschaft Bremen besteht „der hinreichende Tatverdacht, dass ein Mitarbeiter des BND sich der Beihilfe zum Verstoß gegen das Außenwirtschaftsgesetz strafbar gemacht hat“, so Oberstaatsanwalt Frank Passade im MONITOR-Interview.

The DEA likes to borrow stuff. It‘s just not very good about returning borrowed items in the same shape it got them.

Like a woman‘s Facebook account.

Or a businessman‘s semi truck.

And his employee‘s life.