Liberty UK and The Civil Liberties Trust are raising funds online to fund high-stakes litigation against the UK government over the Snoopers Charter, a mass-surveillance law that requires tech companies and telcos to retain everything you do online and hand it over to government, law enforcement, and private contractors without warrants or even minimal record-keeping.
More than a year and a half after Don Dunphy’s tragic shooting death, his daughter is preparing to speak publicly about it for the first time.
Meghan Dunphy will be the first witness to take the stand Monday at the inquiry into what happened at Dunphy’s Mitchells Brook home on April 5, 2015.
Don Dunphy, 59, was fatally shot by RNC Const. Joe Smyth, who at the time was assigned to a special unit handling the security of then–premier Paul Davis.
Smyth went to Dunphy’s home — about 100 kilometres southwest of St. John’s — on an Easter Sunday to investigate after a member of the premier’s staff flagged Dunphy’s social media posts on Twitter as potentially threatening.
Smyth subsequently told the RCMP that they spoke for about 15 minutes until Dunphy became angry. Smyth told police investigators he fired his service pistol at Dunphy four times after Dunphy pointed a 22–calibre rifle at him.
Meghan Dunphy grew up in the Mitchells Brook home where her father died. She was with him just hours before the fatal confrontation with Smyth.
Don Dunphy’s daughter told a judicial inquiry Monday that she doesn’t believe the police officer who fatally shot her father is telling the truth about what happened on Easter Sunday, 2015.
Meghan Dunphy is suggesting her father reached for a stick that he often carried for protection, and that Const. Joe Smyth, of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC), mistook it for a gun and then shot him.
“That’s what I don’t understand. There’s no reason for my father to take a gun. He would have picked up his stick not a gun,” said Meghan.
Judge Leo Barry asked Meghan if she believes Smyth manipulated evidence after the shooting. She responded “Yes,” and suggested Smyth may have placed the gun beside her father to cover up that he shot a man for reaching for a stick.
Following a break, Meagan’s lawyer Erin Breen asked her, “Would your father cooperate with a police officer if he was asked to produce firearms?” Meghan answered, “Yes.”
Canada has created jobs in every year since the 2009 recession.
That sounds great on the surface. But TD Economics scratched just a little deeper and found that almost every job created last year was part-time, in a report released Wednesday.
We should have rolled out Mincome after the successful pilot in the ‘70′s. [Instead, as often happens with good long term planning in winner-take-all politics, the government fell, and its successor certainly wasn’t about to implement a anything that might make the other guys look good. ]
Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media.
When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it.
This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people’s media viewing habits.
If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.
