Six examples of police targeting those who record them and how police can switch off your iPhone camera
Many cameras, little privacy:
“The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from ‘unreasonable searches and seizures,’ but no court has yet found law enforcement use of video cameras to surveil activity on public property to be an unreasonable search,” the Constitution Project report said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/many-cameras-little-privacy/2013/08/12/37462de8-01d1-11e3-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html
Police Now Can Switch off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi:
Apple has recently patented a piece of technology that would allow the authorities and police to block data transmission, including video and photos, whenever they like. All they need to do is decide that a public gathering or venue is deemed “sensitive” and needs to be protected from externalities. In this case Apple will enable them to switch off all its gear. The developers insist that the affected locations are normally cinemas, theaters and concert grounds, but Apple admits it could also be used in covert police or government operations that may need complete “blackout” conditions.
In the meantime, privacy outfits point out that it could also be used to prevent such whistle blowers as Edward Snowden from shooting pictures and sharing them online. In response, Apple claimed that the wireless transmission of sensitive data to a remote source is a threat to security, with the sensitive data being anything from classified government data to answers to an exam administered in an academic setting.
Anyway, the fact is that Apple has patented the means to transmit an encoded signal to all wireless gadgets, commanding them to disable recording functions. The developers reveal that the policies would be activated by GPS, and Wi-Fi or mobile base-stations that would ring-fence around a building or a sensitive area in order to prevent mobile cameras from taking pictures or recording video.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/19/police-now-can-switch-off-iphone-camera-and-wi-fi/
(VIDEO) Wisconsin Capitol police tackle man for photographing progressive protest:
The arrests in the video above, of Christopher J. Terrell, 25, and his brother Damon Terrell, 22, were especially violent and according to reports may lead to felony charges for Damon.
The felony charge being recommended to prosecutors is the most severe since the Wisconsin labor protests began in February 2011, and since police stepped up arrests during the noon protests one month ago.
As noise of rain writes at Daily Kos:
"They've arrested priests, firemen, old ladies, old men, children, and countless citizens who feel that we shouldn't need to get permission to protest our elected government. The whole thing is beyond embarrassing for the state, and for the United States. Every time they take it up a notch, a score or more singers appear the next day. Is it fair to ask why the police have been unusually brutal (compared with a lot of aggressive arresting in the last month!) with two young black men? Is it because Damon "disrespected" an officer by questioning authority? Is it because they were singing? Is it because the cops have absolutely no idea how to handle the situation, and are looking to try to escalate the peaceful singers to violent response, so they can demonize them?"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/26/watch-wisconsin-capitol-police-tackle-man-for-photographing-progressive-protest/
http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/felony-charge-recommended-wisconsin-pr#sthash.EyRp8yDL.dpbs
Officer is indicted on charges of lying about photographer’s arrest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/nyregion/officer-is-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-about-photographers-arrest.html?_r=2&
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/robert-stolarik-police-officer-indicted_n_3822915.html
In California, a champion for police cameras:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/in-california-a-champion-for-police-cameras.html?hp&_r=2&
Police threaten to arrest volunteers feeding homeless without permit:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/26/Police-Threaten-to-Arrest-Volunteers-Feeding-Homeless-Without-Permit