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Technology and civil liberties 技术与公民自由 WHAT is the most striking image to emerge from this autumns Occupy protests? Was it thecampus police officer in Davis, California, casually pepper-spraying a line of seated protesters?Or the white-shirted cop in New York, doing the same to a pair of unarmed, penned-in women?Perhaps it was a street in Oakland, deserted except for protesters and a line of black-helmetedriot police, the silence broken when one of the cops fires a rubber bullet at a protester filminghim. Protesters have complained, as ever, about police infiltration, but as these videos makeclear, protesters and other citizens are keeping their eyes on police, too. 今秋的占领抗议中哪个场面最引人注目?是加利福尼亚州戴维思的校园警察随意地往一排坐在地上的抗议者喷洒胡椒喷雾剂?还是纽约身穿白衬衣的警察以同样的手段对待两位手无寸铁、被关着的女士?或许是在只有抗议者和一排戴着黑色头盔的防暴警察的奥克兰街头，其中一个警察向一位拍摄他的抗议者射出的一枚橡胶子弹将沉默瞬间打破。一如往常，抗议者抱怨他们时刻处在警察的监视之下，但这些视频清楚地表明，抗议者与其他市民同样在密切关注警察的一举一动。 More than two-thirds of Americans own digital cameras. Around one-third of adults own asmartphone. Most of these devices can record and easily transmit audio and video. Recordingpolice has never been easier, and thanks to social-media and activist networks such asCopwatch, which monitors police activity and posts videos to the web, neither has publicisingthese recordings. | 
