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The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to […]
Litigation Seeks to Protect the American Form of Government In a result oriented decision, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled against Freedom Advocates and others in the war over protecting Cities and Counties from a transformation of local government (One Bay Area). The new form of government in the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Following EFF’s victory in a four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government released an opinion (pdf), written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2010, that concluded that Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on to collect millions of Americans’ phone records—does have a limit: census data. The Commerce Department […]
NEW SMART TVS OFFER A WINDOW INTO YOUR LIFE Smart TVs may be getting too smart as some now actually collect and transmit your spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to other 3rd party sources. In fact Samsung, a major electronic manufacture, admits that they “collect, use, share, and store information through your SmartTV in […]
Brandon Keibler, Founder and Director, Project Digital Privacy Brandon Keibler is just your ordinary 16-year-old from Southern Indiana. At least that’s what some people might think. However, having become an activist at fourteen and helping to establish the Restore the Fourth organization, this young man has just launched an organization to encourage grassroots efforts aimed […]
Federal officials want to order a quarantine for a South Pasadena woman and grad student whose sister recently contracted a case of measles at nearby Disneyland, but she is resisting the push because, she says, she doesn’t have the disease. Twenty-six-year-old Ylsa Tellez’s younger sister, 24-year-old Maura Tellez, was one of more than two dozen […]
Real ID: gold star for good behavior; no report on the scarlet letter they’ll use to ID troublemakers. Real ID: gold star for good behavior; no report on the scarlet letter they’ll use to ID troublemakers. The TSA recently announced they will require a special driver’s license to board domestic flights by 2016. These ‘Real IDs’ […]
from the ah,-now-I-understand-the-phrase-‘documented-citizen’ dept The TSA is disappointed that so few Americans have opted out of its bottle-tossing, package-groping screenings by signing up for its PreCheck program. For a few years now, the TSA has been selling travelers’ civil liberties back to them, most recently for $85 a head, but it’s now making a serious […]
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 […]
In times of crises, the government has proven, time and time again, that it cannot be counted on to adequately protect the American people. As the American people have not prepared for the coming dark days, they will be vulnerable to starvation, dehydration, cholera, pandemics and attacks from resource-deficient looters. Will the government be there […]
Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube-nocookie.com 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 […]
FA Note: Little is heard today of what might be called “Sustainable Medicine”. It exists, but not specifically within Agenda 21. The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created by the UN, covering all foods. The U.S. FDA’s policy is that Codex supersedes U.S. laws. Furthermore, the U.S. passage of CAFTA requires the U.S. to conform to […]
EFF Note: The bulk of the research in this post was compiled prior to Attorney General Eric Holder’s surprise announcement that he is curtailing the federal equitable sharing program. The post may be updated as further ramifications of the policy decision become clear. “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you […]
Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stated that the use of their email service is a practice, he believes, associated with terrorism. Javier Gómez Bermúdez is a judge of Audiencia Nacional, a special high court in Spain that deals with […]
Scott Walker’s Plan to Privatize Schools Anita B. Hoge An Alert by Anita Hoge https://goleftamerica.wildapricot.org/stop-charter-school-takeover “After cutting a billion dollars from education, Scott Walker and his GOP friends have achieved the goal sinking the educational potential of Wisconsin Schools. On their first day back in session, Assembly Republicans seeking a free market solution have introduced a bill […]
John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way […]
PEN America published a report this week summarizing the findings from a recent survey of 772 writers around the world on questions of surveillance and self-censorship. The report, entitled “Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers,” builds upon a late 2013 survey of more than 500 US-based writers conducted by the organization. […]
A House Republican is criticizing a piece of legislation just passed by Congress as grossly unconstitutional because it essentially gives the federal government and local law enforcement “unlimited access to the communications of every American.” As reported by InfoWars.com, Rep. Justin Amash of Wisconsin said he found a passage in the Intelligence Authorization Act for […]
First Public Court Challenge to “Upstream” Internet Spying Oakland — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue on Friday before a federal court that the National Security Agency (NSA) is violating the Fourth Amendment by copying and searching data that it collects by tapping into the Internet backbone. The hearing on a motion for partial […]
(Bloomberg) — Vincent Thornley, head of Siemens AG’s U.K. smart-grid research, talks about the role of smart grids in the future of energy where a network can run household appliances when power is abundant and cheap. He spoke with Bloomberg’s Alex Webb in Newcastle, England. (Source: Bloomberg) FA Note: The Smart Grid is promoted as […]
(Photo: KING5 Staff) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Three Bellingham children taken from their parents by CPS are now home, but they are still under state protection. Erica May Carey and Cleave Rengo appeared in court on Friday. Within an hour after the judge’s ruling, they picked up their 1‑year-old son and 8‑week-old twins from the Bellingham CPS […]
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month (March, 2012), Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired […]
There’s a new international survey on Internet security and trust, of “23,376 Internet users in 24 countries,” including “Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States.” Amongst the findings, 60% of Internet […]
Your Gift From Anita B Hoge (Source) A Link To Your Federal Grant in Your State Creating A “National ID” When thinking about the violations of privacy that were exposed by Edward Snowden for the NSA monitoring emails and phone conversations.… Honestly! Snowden’s release of this information is child’s play compared to what the government is collecting […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
