The “Pardon Edward Snowden” Petition is Exploding with Signatures…Sign Here
Yesterday, someone created a “Pardon Edward Snowden” petition on Whitehouse.gov and I’ve never seen a petition get this many signatures this fast. Recall, the Administration raised the threshold on...
View ArticleWhy the Collection of Metadata is a Very, Very Big Deal
Some people seemed strangely relieved in the wake of the NSA spying scandal when Obama said “no one is listening to your phone calls.” First of all, while they are clearly not listening to everyone’s...
View ArticleMeet Xmission: The ISP Focused on Privacy
Earlier this week, I highlighted alternative search engine DuckDuckGo, which focuses on privacy and claims that: “if the NSA demanded data there would be none to hand over.” Today’s article focuses on...
View ArticleIf Flying into the UK, Your Phone Can Be Seized and Data Downloaded Without...
The next time you fly into Heathrow, you may want to guard your phone with your life. That, or erase all the personal data you don’t want to fall into the hands of some nosey bureaucrat. Incredibly,...
View ArticleBUSTED – U.S. Tech Giants Knew of NSA Spying Says Agency’s Senior Lawyer
This is why I’ve been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you...
View ArticleBig Brother is Coming…To Your Brokerage Account
In the midst of the financial crisis, our “leaders” had a choice. They could’ve done what most Americans wanted, which was allow failing firms to fail and permit the chips to fall where they may. In...
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Big Brother is Coming to Healthcare – How Hospitals are Entering Your Credit...
The article below is a great example of the unforeseen dangers of creating gigantic bureaucratic systems into which potentially hundreds of millions of people are forced into involuntarily, i.e.,...
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Is the U.S. Government Trying to Stop Glenn Greenwald from Publishing His...
In May, I highlighted an excellent interview of Glenn Greenwald by GQ Magazine in the piece: Glenn Greenwald on the 2016 Elections – “They’ll Probably Have a Gay Person After Hillary.” There’s so much...
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Was the Department of Defense Behind Facebook’s Controversial Manipulation...
I’ve spent pretty much all day reading as much as possible about the extremely controversial Facebook “emotional contagion” study in which the company intentionally altered its news feed algorithm to...
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Meet CISA – Dianne Feinstein’s Latest Attack on Privacy, Civil Liberties and...
There’s not much good you can count on Congress to accomplish, but when it comes to introducing and passing oligarch protecting, civil liberties destroying legislation, our “representatives” are...
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