Increasingly, our freedom and autonomy are threatened by those who seek to monitor and control every aspect of our daily lives. George Orwell’s “Big Brother” from the novel 1984 is a pale threat in comparison to the dystopian reality our leaders which have created for us since that book was published more than six decades […]
Your home appliances will soon be remotely controlled by the government
Posted on January 29, 2015 Written by
EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
Posted on January 28, 2015 Written by
We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law. That’s good news for Americans. U.S. law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. That […]
In Response to EFF Lawsuit, Government Ordered to Release Secret Surveillance Court Documents Today
Posted on January 27, 2015 Written by
Update: The government released two new FISC opinions this evening, both of which concern the transition of NSA surveillance to the oversight of the FISC in 2007. Neither of the two documents, available here and here, is the Raw Take order or the 2008 FAA order. The government has one additional production deadline in this […]
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
Posted on January 25, 2015 Written by
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one’s zip code, income level, smoking status, pregnancy status and more. EFF researchers have independently […]
(Missouri conference) What Is The Role Of Public Schools
Posted on January 25, 2015 Written by
After several years looking at Common Core; where it came from, who supports it, how it is being implemented, its impact on teachers/students/parents, and listening to the complaints of parents/the general public about it, I view Common Core as a symptom, not the cause of the public outcry over education. I believe the reason most […]
What You Can Learn from Oakland’s Raw ALPR Data
Posted on January 25, 2015 Written by
Police cars mounted with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) wind their way through the streets of Oakland like a “Snake” game on an old cell phone. Instead of eating up pixels of food, these cameras gobble down thousands of license plates each day. And instead of growing a longer tail, ALPRs feed into a giant […]
Smartphones will begin categorizing users’ mental health; gun seizures will follow
Posted on January 24, 2015 Written by
The Digital Age has produced some remarkable technology and will continue to do so, but as each new innovation springs forth, more of us are finding that we are not as comfortable with it as we once thought we might be. One of the latest examples comes from a new iPhone app that appears capable of […]
Bill Gates Rules the World
Posted on January 24, 2015 Written by
Databanking Everybody Everywhere From the article above, “Bill Gates: digital learning will revolutionise education in global south”, Cheaper smartphones and tablets, advances in software and better network coverage will revolutionise the way children in developing countries learn over the next 15 years, according to the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.… “The educational software is still […]
