Daily Archives: December 11, 2014

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Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you – TED Talk

Published on Dec 11, 2014

A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader. These cameras are innocuously placed all across small-town America to catch known criminals, but as lawyer and TED Fellow Catherine Crump shows, the data they collect in aggregate could have disastrous consequences for everyone the world over.

via Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you – YouTube.

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What the Torture Report Isn’t Telling You | Weapons of Mass Distraction – Abby Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8lHVqKjDg

Published on Dec 11, 2014

Why is the corporate media turning torture into a debate? Abby Martin discusses the media’s reaction to the Senate torture report and why torture has suddenly turned into a partisan debate.