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WillyT

(72,631 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 07:26 PM Jan 2014

NSA??? TPP??? - How In The HELL, Is THIS In The Purview Of The DHS ???

Google Glass user questioned by Homeland Security in Ohio theater for suspected piracy
John Ribeiro - PCWorld
1/22/14

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Google Glass has raised privacy concerns in many countries. It now appears that it is being monitored as a potential aid to copyright infringement.

A man who wore Google Glass to a movie theater in Ohio was detained and interrogated by officials of the Department of Homeland Security, highlighting concerns that the device may be used by people to illegally record movies at a theater.

A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, which works closely with theaters all over the U.S. to curb camcording and “theater-originated piracy,” said Tuesday that no such activity was discovered in the particular case.

The DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that agents of its Homeland Security Investigations interviewed the man, but did not take action after it was found that the recording device, suspected of being used to record a film at the theater, was also a pair of prescription eye glasses in which the recording function had been inactive.

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More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2090140/google-glass-user-questioned-in-ohio-theater-for-suspected-piracy.html




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NSA??? TPP??? - How In The HELL, Is THIS In The Purview Of The DHS ??? (Original Post) WillyT Jan 2014 OP
what is DHHS doing in a theater, anyway? nt grasswire Jan 2014 #1
Yeah... Doesn't The Theater Have It's Own Security ??? - And... WillyT Jan 2014 #2
Other stories said FBI men grabbed him. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #4
Yeah... And There's A Word For That... It Starts With An F... WillyT Jan 2014 #5
The NSA needs an enforcement branch. ... spin Jan 2014 #3
Were they there as part of an investigation, a tip off? MADem May 2014 #9
UPDATE--per the article: They weren't in the theater. MADem May 2014 #10
Just one taste, one aspect, of corporate fascism. K&R woo me with science Jan 2014 #6
Yep... WillyT Jan 2014 #7
Before 9-11, it was Friendly Fascism. Octafish Jan 2014 #8
 

WillyT

(72,631 posts)
2. Yeah... Doesn't The Theater Have It's Own Security ??? - And...
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 08:38 PM
Jan 2014
Why Are OUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS Being Used To Protect Hollywood's Profit Margin ???






dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. Other stories said FBI men grabbed him.
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 09:54 PM
Jan 2014

Of course, FBI isunder DHs..

So all that firepower, so to speaqk, that FAST, because of MPAA.
guess we know who runs the country, eh?

 

WillyT

(72,631 posts)
5. Yeah... And There's A Word For That... It Starts With An F...
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 09:58 PM
Jan 2014

And although it IS Fucked up... that's not the word.




spin

(17,493 posts)
3. The NSA needs an enforcement branch. ...
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 09:08 PM
Jan 2014

Someday in the future when a Republican is President, you may speak out a bit too loudly and the NSA will be listening. DHS will break down your front door and you'll find yourself on the floor with a dozen men in body amour pointing fully automatic assault rifles at you.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. Were they there as part of an investigation, a tip off?
Thu May 8, 2014, 12:17 AM
May 2014

I think this may have been a sting where the guy who was the "patsy" was on to the game.

Doesn't make sense otherwise.

I doubt it was an "interrogation of opportunity."

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. UPDATE--per the article: They weren't in the theater.
Thu May 8, 2014, 12:21 AM
May 2014
AMC Theatres confirmed in a message on Twitter that “it is true that a guest with a potential recording device inside the auditorium was questioned at our AMC Easton 30.” The theater had contacted MPAA investigators and later referred the issue to the DHS, according to the source.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. Before 9-11, it was Friendly Fascism.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 06:39 PM
Jan 2014


Friendly Fascism - The New Face of Power in America

by Bertram Gross

EXCERPT...

Friendly fascism portrays two conflicting trends in the United States and other countries of the so-called "free world."

The first is a slow and powerful drift toward greater concentration of power and wealth in a repressive Big Business-Big Government partnership. This drift leads down the road toward a new and subtly manipulative form of corporatist serfdom. The phrase "friendly fascism" helps distinguish this possible future from the patently vicious corporatism of classic fascism in the past of Germany, Italy and Japan. It also contrasts with the friendly present of the dependent fascisms propped up by the U.S. government in El Salvador, Haiti, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, the Philippines and elsewhere.

The other is a slower and less powerful tendency for individuals and groups to seek greater participation in decisions affecting themselves and others. This trend goes beyond mere reaction to authoritarianism. It transcends the activities of progressive groups or movements and their use of formal democratic machinery. It is nourished by establishment promises-too often rendered false-of more human rights, civil rights and civil liberties. It is embodied in larger values of community, sharing, cooperation, service to others and basic morality as contrasted with crass materialism and dog-eat-dog competition. It affects power relations in the household, workplace, community, school, church, synagogue, and even the labyrinths of private and public bureaucracies. It could lead toward a truer democracy-and for this reason is bitterly fought...

These contradictory trends are woven fine into the fabric of highly industrialized capitalism. The unfolding logic of friendly fascist corporatism is rooted in "capitalist society's transnational growth and the groping responses to mounting crises in a dwindling capitalist world". Mind management and sophisticated repression become more attractive to would-be oligarchs when too many people try to convert democratic promises into reality. On the other hand, the alternative logic of true democracy is rooted in "humankind's long history of resistance to unjustified privilege" and in spontaneous or organized "reaction (other than fright or apathy) to concentrated power...and inequality, injustice or coercion".

A few years ago too many people closed their eyes to the indicators of the first tendency.

But events soon began to change perceptions.

CONTINUED...



After 9-11, not so much friendly.
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