Show Notes, December 15th 2014

http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surprisingly_dangerous_detail_the_police_track_about_you ACLU – Report https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/071613-aclu-alprreport-opt-v05.pdf You Are Being Tracked – How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements http://www.ted.com/talks/kenneth_cukier_big_data_is_better_data?language=en MakeUseOf.com 29 Debian vs Ubuntu: How Far Has Ubuntu Come in 10 Years? Ubuntu recently released 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”, which coincides with the fact that Ubuntu is now 10 years old! The king of Linux […]

Show Notes December 8th, 2014

Lena talks about how wonderful her new phone is.   Body Cams: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/12/04/bodycams-transformed-a-tiny-airport-police-force-they-could-do-the-same-for-the-rest-of-america/ complaints against Springfield Mo regional airport saw this massive drop in complaints from a couple a week to about once a month. complaints against officers in rialto CA dropped by 88%: https://ojpdiagnosticcenter.org/sites/default/files/spotlight/download/Police%20Officer%20Body-Worn%20Cameras.pdf annectdotal evidence of a similar phenomenon in phoenix http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-body-cameras-20140927-story.html#page=1 “A recent […]

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