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Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in […]
Glenn Greenwald> Surveillance State evils
Surveillance State evils BY GLENN GREENWALD April 21, 2012 Salon.com Frank Church (Credit: Wikipedia) “Th[e National Security Agency's] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. […]
People’s Blog for the Constitution » FBI seeking web application to monitor social networks
FBI seeking web application to monitor social networks Farid Zakaria January 30, 2012 BORDC The FBI Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC) has issued a Request for Information to determine the feasibility of an online application capable of monitoring social networks. Specifically, the FBI is seeking to develop an application that “provide[s] an Open […]
Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically Shrunk. What’s Left?> The Nation
Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically Shrunk. What’s Left? If the government wants to track us, it has never been easier. The ubiquitous and relatively invisible private collection of data serves as a sort of outsourcing of surveillance. November 28, 2011 | The Nation / By Patricia J. Williams via AlterNet When attorney and feminist blogger Jill Filipovic […]
What Happened When I Tried to Get Some Answers About the Creepy NYPD Watchtower Monitoring OWS
What Happened When I Tried to Get Some Answers About the Creepy NYPD Watchtower Monitoring OWS There’s a metal monster looming over Liberty Square, but don’t ask questions about it or else. November, 2011 | AlterNet / By Nick Turse LIBERTY SQUARE – The drummers drummed. Photo Credit: Tam Turse The guitarists strummed. And the hearty souls building […]
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