Showing posts with label internet privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet privacy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
WHAT GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION...THIS SUCKS! BUT HERE'S A FIX...AND GET YOURSELF OFF FACEBOOK, ETC.
You might want to take notes on this one. It's a good one.
Discrete searches can also be done with Startpage.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
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Quote of the Day: "Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference." - Ludwig von MisesShould federal agencies search your email without a warrant?
You may have read the CNET article on a bill empowering 22 federal agencies to search your email without a search warrant.
The backlash was so swift and powerful that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy denied the CNET article.
But the story doesn't end there...
Friends inside DC tell us that Ranking Member Senator Charles Grassley will propose even worse amendments this week.
Please tell your Senators to oppose Republican Grassley's amendments using DownsizeDC.org's Hands Off the Internet campaign.
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I support amendments to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act requiring search warrants before federal agents can examine my emails and other electronic communication.- - -
Apparently, Sen. Grassley wants the opposite. He'd empower two dozen or more federal agencies to read my email without a warrant.
I do not consent!
Consider, in the Petraeus scandal...
* The FBI may have accessed Paula Broadwell's email accounts without a warrant
* Instead of investigating a crime, the FBI examined private emails HUNTING for a crime
As a result, they brought down one of the most powerful men in Washington. http://wapo.st/XTAoFw
If this can happen to someone as powerful as the head of the CIA, how much greater is the danger of Grassley's amendments to me?
Do you want J. Edgar Hoover-style monitoring of YOUR activities?
Grassley claims he's complying with the demands of law enforcement. But the Fourth Amendment protects my email just as much as it protects my home. Let me be clear...
If law enforcement agents tell you that the Fourth Amendment keeps them from doing their jobs, they should be fired for their anti-Constitutional attitude!
PREVENT federal agents from violating the Fourth Amendment.
Defeat any privacy-invading amendments.
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US government funds social network snooping
WAIT TILL OBAMA GETS IN!
US government funds social network snooping
The US government is funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine.
At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children, can put on the sites.
Social networking sites have enjoyed phenomenal recent success. Industry leader MySpace has attracted 85m members with new members joining at a rate of 250,000 per day. Users, most often young people, use their own pages to swap information about themselves, their hobbies, their friends and their favourite music and films.
That kind of information is the subject of a research paper by a team from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. The paper, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, proposes methods for combining the data posted on social networking sites and other computer databases to reveal information about individuals.
The New Scientist discovered that ARDA (Advanced Research Development Agency), credited in a footnote with part-funding the research paper, is a branch of the National Security Agency, the US government body responsible for surveillance and code breaking.
The news follows recent revelations about secret surveillance of US citizens by other US security agencies. The New York Times recently revealed that the US government is tracking financial transactions of some citizens and non-citizens, while it has also emerged in recent weeks that the government has tracked phone call activity of some citizens since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
In 2003 US Congress stopped Pentagon projects being operated by retired admiral John Poindexter which aimed to mine public and private records for information on individuals suspected of terrorist activity.
Congress ended the programmes because they were worried that they might put innocent Americans under suspicion, according to a February 2004 Associated Press report. That report identified ARDA as the office which would carry out software development in the gathering of information from disparate sources.
The New Scientist report said a Congressional Research Service report identified ARDA, since renamed the Disruptive Technologies Office, as a body which funds research into issues of use to the intelligence community.
Meanwhile, social networking sites have hit the headlines for other reasons. The US Congress is attempting to limit the ways in which young people use the sites in order to protect young people and children. The Energy and Commerce subcommittee has just finished a series of hearings on pornography and plans to issue legislation to protect children online. The plans will contain some measures to force social network sites to protect its users, said US press reports.
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