Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
Ah, close but not the same. I was talking about cards that you hand to the cops who stop you. -Declan On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:50:00PM -0400, Greg Newby wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:26:46PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > > I was thinking along the same lines as David. Stickers i

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: > You can protect privacy without depriving people of the right to protect > themselves. Only a lawyer, or crack head, could have thinking that fucked up. 'protect privacy' is equivalent to 'right to protect themselves'. --

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Aimee Farr
Matt said: > So I guess the moral of the story is that if you must record the > police you should do so clandestinely. The Court addressed this: "Followed to its logical conclusion, the dissent would encourage drug manufacturers to mount hidden video cameras in their facilities so they can capt

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Aimee Farr
On an adult level, companies that adopt "1984ish" employee monitoring policies know not what they do On a societal level, we are responding to feelings of pervasive surveillance. "THEY" got it - we don't. Do we feel threatened? What we you do? ANSWER: http://www.indymedia.org. That is more th

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Jon Beets wrote: > police should not have the same > standards as regular citizens > when performing their public > duties...They work for the people > and therefore should be accountable > for the people just like any boss > should be able to monitor their > employees Some of you know Hugh

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
I was thinking along the same lines as David. Stickers in windshields would work. I've also seen folks selling the "these are my rights, cop" cards. Seems to be a market opportunity to add another line to them. -Declan On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:56:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote: > At 04:20 PM

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
Keep in mind that the Mass. decision that started this thread only dealt with *surreptitious* recording. Mann's "shooting back" is still allowed even in Mass. as long as it's obvious what you're doing. -Declan On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:20:56PM +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001,

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Aimee Farr
BTW, Mass. has always been "funny" about electronic surveillance. State history is very interesting, and so is the law. (Early on, their police wouldn't wiretap, it was not "gentlemanly." Ahem.) Consider the traditionalist two-party states and ponder on the true nature of the historical parallels

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Aimee Farr
> Isn't the ruling not specific to recording the police, > but that MA has a two-party recording rule? Correct. You might find it interesting that a number of states are considering (or revisiting) visual recording statutes. One form has a privacy expectation and exceptions for prisons, security

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread George
Gurly cypherpunk Aimee wrote: # #Critics of contemporary surveillance law point out that we #increasingly live in a world where THEY can spy on you, but you #can't spy on THEM. Governments, business and employers are like #bad parents that say, "*I* can do it -- but you can't."

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Trei, Peter
, July 16, 2001 10:56 AM > To: Eugene Leitl; Greg Newby > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal > > At 04:20 PM 7/16/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote: > >On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Greg Newby wrote: > > > > Mann's "

RE: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Trei, Peter
a, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. Peter Trei > -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:51 AM > To: A bomb named 'Mike' > Subject: Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread David Honig
At 04:20 PM 7/16/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote: >On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Greg Newby wrote: > > Mann's "shooting back" is rapidly >getting outlawed. Heh, some of Mann's work involves pseudo-cameras (or dark acrylic plates on your shirt, or leds under domes on your backback), so can we look forward to

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread George
Eugene Leitl wrote: # #What we're getting (surprise, surprise) is that recording of #the public is allright but not recording *by* the public. Mann's #"shooting back" is rapidly getting outlawed. I'm not one to make apologies for this sort of thing, and perhaps I skimmed the articl

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-16 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Greg Newby wrote: > This is a good opportunity to urge cp's who haven't yet, to read David > Brin's "Transparent Society." It's pie in the sky, but essentially > advocates having cameras everywhere, so that anyone anywhere can tap > into a video feed. Brin's scenario is sym

Re: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
ubj line is descriptive, but somewhat misleading. > > > > ~Aimee > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > > Behalf Of Jim Choate > > > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 6:47 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal > > > > > > > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/14/0834224.shtml

Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

2001-07-14 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/14/0834224.shtml -- -- Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light.