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Are you being tracked? A TED Fellow on how law enforcement follows your movements, and why you should care

Are you being tracked? A TED Fellow on how law enforcement follows your movements, and why you should care

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Did you know that across the United States, cameras are automatically taking pictures of your car’s license plate as you drive by, recording your plate number and your locations over time? In a chilling talk given at TEDGlobal 2014, civil liberties lawyer and TED Fellow Catherine Crump called attention to the ubiquity of mass surveillance technology []

Our laws belong to us: Kimberley Motley live at TEDGlobal 2014

Our laws belong to us: Kimberley Motley live at TEDGlobal 2014

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Kimberley Motley is an impossible woman: The former Mrs. Wisconsin, whose father is African-American and mother is a North Korean refugee, is the first foreigner to litigate in the courts of Afghanistan. Today she closes the penultimate session at TEDGlobal 2014 to send a message to the world: Our laws can protect us, as long []

Taking back the Republic: Larry Lessig at TED2013

Taking back the Republic: Larry Lessig at TED2013

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Larry Lessig has been referenced twice this morning, first by Wikihouse’s Alastair Parvin and secondly by the musician Amanda Palmer. So it seems only right and proper that the Harvard Law professor should round off this session of TED2013. He’s here to talk about Lesterland, a fictional land with a population of 311 million people of []