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You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Record The Policenew

Meet the crusaders battling for everyone's right to record cops in Massachusetts.
Dig Boston  |  Andrew Quemere  |  04-10-2015  |  Civil Liberties

Smarter City or City Under Surveillancenew

Last week the Dig alerted readers to a secret experiment carried out by the City of Boston during the Boston Calling concerts that took place in May and September of last year. Among the revelations therein: Outside contractors helped municipal authorities deploy resources designed to analyze body and facial patterns of “every person who approaches the door” in order to gauge panic levels and crowd sentiment. In this follow-up, again relying in part on privileged documents that were left exposed online, we examine the communications leading up to these surveillance trials in the days, months, and even decade prior to the first Boston Calling.
Dig Boston  |  Chris Faraone, Kenneth Lipp and Jonathan Riley  |  08-15-2014  |  Civil Liberties

City of Boston Testing Facial Recognition Software at Concertsnew

You partied hard at Boston Calling and now there's facial recognition data to prove it.
Dig Boston  |  Chris Faraone, Kenneth Lipp and Jonathan Riley  |  08-08-2014  |  Civil Liberties

To Inform the Public (and Censor Them)new

The Carr family detests all that is evil, from hacks to kids on their lawn, to politicians who sneeze into your tax dollars, to the liberal establishment, to... kids on their lawn. And the Boston Herald's favorite columnist isn't the only one with an inky thumb.
Dig Boston  |  Media Farm  |  03-10-2010  |  Civil Liberties

Will This Nondiscrimination Bill Transition to a Law?new

Hundreds of transgender Massachusetts residents gathered recently to lobby (yet again) for the right to stand under the state's hate crime and nondiscrimination umbrella. Currently, a range of person-flavors are covered — including race, religion, age, nationality and others — but not transgender identity.
Dig Boston  |  Maya Phillips  |  01-27-2010  |  Civil Liberties

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