Fight against ‘Big Brother’ surveillance toys gets serious
Privacy organization calls for ‘smart’ regs for ‘smart’ playtime Privacy organizations have been campaigning in the United States for several years for regulations to protect children from internet-connected “smart” toys such as dolls and games that enable the manufacturers to listen to their playtime. Now the effort is going global. The Electronic Privacy Information Center is urging the European […]
#FREEKNOWLES: Twitter Suspends Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles For Election Day Joke
Saturday night, the Daily Wire’s own Michael Knowles revealed on his Instagram that he’d been suspended by Twitter over a joke Tweet instructing Democrats to vote on November 7, the Wednesday after Election Day. Twitter, which has been loathe to remove threatening Tweets, and, according to reports, tolerated the man allegedly behind a nationwide bombing […]
LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election
This senior Google executive didn’t say, “Hillary Clinton lost” or “the Democrats lost” or “they lost”. She said “we lost”. We. At a Google staff meeting. Being a partisan Democrat is just assumed at Google. pic.twitter.com/wwp4wiV50D — Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) September 12, 2018 A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election […]
Privacy | 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidates
What do the Democratic Candidates Believe About Warrantless Domestic Surveillance / Privacy? Y= Supports DSWW N=does not support DSWW R=Seeks to reduce Hillary Clinton: R Hillary’s Evasive Views on the NSA Hillary Clinton is almost certain to launch a bid for the presidency. But at least for now, she’s determined to keep the public guessing about […]
Real ID | 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidates
What do the Democratic Candidates Believe About Real ID / E-Verify? Y= for N= against Hillary Clinton: RI=Y / EV=? Hillary Clinton Pledges to ‘Fight for Comprehensive Immigration Reform’, Expand Executive Amnesty “I will fight for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship for you and for your families across our country,” she said. […]
Privacy | 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates
What do the Republican Candidates Believe About Warrantless Domestic Surveillance / Privacy? Y= Supports DSWW N=does not support DSWW R=reduce Ben Carson: N Carson on Wednesday also weighed in on the debate in Congress over whether to reauthorize the Patriot Act, calling the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of metadata with U.S. phone calls a violation […]
Real ID | 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates
What do the Republican Candidates Believe About Real ID / E-Verify? Y= for N= against Ben Carson: RI=? / EV= Y* In July 2014, Dr. Carson didn’t mention *E-Verify by name, but he did say that employers should face harsh punishments for hiring illegal aliens: “You have to reduce the incentive for people to […]
The Paris attacks have shifted the momentum in the privacy-surveillance debate
The job of the United States’ intelligence agencies is, at its simplest, to know everything about any potential threat to or opponent of the country. It is to know what the premier of China said to his assistant right before dinner and to know where two Islamic State terrorists are headed in their car. It’s […]
Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday partly blocked the National Security Agency’s program that systematically collects Americans’ domestic phone records in bulk just weeks before the agency was scheduled to shut it down and replace it. The judge said the program was most likely unconstitutional. In a separate case challenging the program, a […]
Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning | TED Talk
Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an […]