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''"They will lead to unprecedented improvements in the quality of life."'' You have *got* to be kidding me. And knowing current practices of "giving people a choice", we may be allowed to opt-out, at least for a part of it. Sensors everywhere. Access points everywhere. Smaaaart. Not. http://www.smart-cities.eu/
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''"They will lead to unprecedented improvements in the quality of life."'' You have *got* to be kidding me. And knowing current practices of "giving people a choice" there is no opt-in, we may be allowed to opt-out (but only for a part of it). Sensors everywhere. Access points everywhere. Smaaaart. Not. http://www.smart-cities.eu/
  
 
== Resources ==
 
== Resources ==

Revision as of 15:11, 5 September 2015

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Indefinite solitary confinement

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is now facing the serious threat of "indefinite solitary confinement" in prison at Fort Leavenworth, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for providing WikiLeaks with documentation of a vast array of war crimes and deception by the U.S. government [1][2][3][4].

Fined for posting picture of police car

Unnamed woman from Alicante ordered to pay €800 under controversial gagging law for posting photo on her Facebook page. A Spanish woman has been fined €800 (£570) under the country’s controversial new gagging law for posting a photograph of a police car parked illegally in a disabled bay. The unnamed woman, a resident of Petrer in Alicante, south-east Spain, posted the photo on her Facebook page with the comment “Park where you bloody well please and you won’t even be fined” [5].

Smart Cities

"They will lead to unprecedented improvements in the quality of life." You have *got* to be kidding me. And knowing current practices of "giving people a choice" there is no opt-in, we may be allowed to opt-out (but only for a part of it). Sensors everywhere. Access points everywhere. Smaaaart. Not. http://www.smart-cities.eu/

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References

  1. Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement http://www.newsweek.com/chelsea-manning-faces-indefinite-solitary-confinement-having-caitlyn-jenner-362471
  2. Trevor Timm: Chelsea Manning Threatened with ‘Indefinite Solitary Confinement’ http://boingboing.net/2015/08/12/chelsea-manning-threatened-wit.html
  3. BuzzFeed News: Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/chelsea-manning-faces-solitary-confinement-under-new-charges
  4. Urgent Petition in Support of Chelsea Manning's Human Rights http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11573
  5. Spanish woman fined for posting picture of police parked in disabled bay http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/16/spanish-woman-fined-gagging-law-photographing-police