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arlier this year, the NSA — after a few months of hedging — finally mothballed its phone record collection program. The modified phone metadata collection had posed problems for the NSA since … Read more
by Apollo_Frog Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” —Richard Salant, former president, CBS News “The ‘affirmative task’ before … Read more
A new law being considered in Arizona would force state employees, parent volunteers and those seeking professional licenses to submit their DNA to a huge statewide database unprecedented in scope … Read more
by eidas007 So I made this script for my wife. She has to call and handle some debt collection from credit cards we stupidly incurred in our early 20’s … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they’re reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive … Read more
by bringsmemes ” Sound paranoid? Consider the case of Google. (One of the founders of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, is presently married to Sergei Brin, the founder of Google.) When it … Read more
States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/states-can-require-internet-tax-collection-supreme-court-rules-jiomtl5c Text in the article: The U.S. Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in sales … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: Michigan has become the first state to ban the National Security Agency’s intrusive data collection practices by passing a law that prohibits law enforcement and state agencies from turning … Read more
by Ninjakick666 Album of 100+ screenshots from various CIA, FBI and State Dept. documents… Here’s a bunch of links to various government news sites and below that the FOIA archives… then … Read more
These kind of online tracking services are a testament to what has become of modern journalism. Money is made not by the quality of one’s reporting, but instead by the … Read more
Facebook: "This is their information. They own it"BBC: "And you won’t sell it?"FB: "No! Of course not." Please help this 2009 interview of Facebook's CEO get seen by people who … Read more