New Orleans In the age of “big data” we are led to believe that eyes are everywhere on all of us. All is known by the all-knowing. NSA is up our nose. It goes on and on. Yet, somehow we are losing people. We lost more than 400,000 people on certifications under the Affordable Care …
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The Clock Keeps Ticking and Investigations Continue on Assange and Snowden
New Orleans Whatever happened to Julian Assange of Wiki-leaks and Edward Snowden of NSA mega-leaks? Well, Assange has now done 1000 days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he received political asylum, and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been given a 3-year visitor visa. Amazingly, though the investigations by the USA and …
Spying through the Mail, How Last Century
New Orleans The US Postal Service admitted that it had complied already this year with 50,000 different requests from local law enforcement authorities and national security folks for permission to open the mail of US citizens in search of nefarious schemes and hanky-panky. Perhaps unrelated, and perhaps not, within days the US Postal Service also …
All Demonstrations are Now Spying Opportunities All the Time
Dallas We condemn China’s regular crackdowns of dissidents and many countries offer them safe harbor. We cheer the courageous members of Pussy Riot in Russia or Femen in the Ukraine who have stood up to governments for the freedom of speech and the rights of women. We are outraged at the military coups that subvert …
Public Health is not a Privacy Breech for Citizen Protection and Disaster Prevention
Houston We can’t have it both ways. We can’t mourn the more than 1000 deaths in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina and condemn the government for not taking responsibility for the most vulnerable citizens without transportation or facing medical problems, and also say that the government should stand aside from his duty in order to protect …