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30% of FBI terrorism stings involved the informant facilitating the activity

Surveillance-Industrial Complex surveillance state Orwellian Stasi 2.0 War on Terror ISIS Snoopers Charter Vorratsdatenspeicherung Meta Data Edward Snowden
july 2016 by asterisk2a

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Daily Vlogs sind asozial # DAILY VLOG FEEDBACK No2 # Youtube-Formate-Test

Vlogging ist asozial. #Selbstdarstellung. Selfish. Always in selfie mode - not seeing the world. always seeing through camera display. Daily creations that are ONE OFF creative and value-adding are hard. Even the great Casey Neistat is struggeling. And views see that. Material gets flimsy. THUS - WEEKLY! creative austoben. //
PLAYLIST! - youtu.be/EaLK8jfIS_s?list=PLDEnF8zo_hX4w553blOzrgFjGA_gWzg1q // 6# - youtu.be/EaLK8jfIS_s - YouTube ist mittlerweile eine Branche mit Mainstream wie TV. Egal was ihr schaut, ihr clickts. [...] youtube pacing/cutting [...] langeweile [ << attention span ] //&! #8 ist META! What is a vlog? Is a DM haul vlog too as is 'get ready w me'!? //&! #11 vlogs feel repetitive without added value/value creation/individualism/personal note/A ONE OFF CREATION! even casey neistats! even she notices it! //&! see #12 #13 #14 follow-up. ONE OFF STORYTELLING (visual,audio,cut,storyline,topic ...) CREATION! no time waster, "give me my 10min back, pls case!"

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april 2016 by asterisk2a

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Investigatory Powers Bill: May defends surveillance powers - BBC News

Mrs May has said Britain's spies must continue to be allowed to hack into foreign computer networks, under so-called "bulk equipment interference warrants", as this was "a key operational requirement for GCHQ".
She told MPs that bulk powers had played a significant role in every major counter-terrorism investigation over the past decade, including seven terror plots foiled in the past 18 months, and in responding to the bulk of cyber attacks against UK interests.

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march 2016 by asterisk2a

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Security Experts Warn of Orwellian Future in Apple Case | Re/code

[ all without a warrant ] Your Samsung smart TV or Amazon Echo might spy on you next if the government succeeds in forcing Apple to disable security protections on a smartphone to further the FBI’s investigation into the San Bernardino attacks. Security experts from Stanford, Harvard and Rice universities and independent researchers laid out this Orwellian scenario in a court filing today, supporting Apple’s fight against a court order to help investigators hack a smartphone used by one of the assailants in the mass killing. The group of seven experts argues that the judge’s order [...] disturbing possibilities for how law enforcement might turn everyday items into surveillance tools. //&! Amazon Quietly Disabled Encryption in Latest Version of Fire OS - on.recode.net/1TXeXPB //&! Twitter, Airbnb, eBay, Kickstarter, LinkedIn and Square File Brief Supporting Apple - on.recode.net/1LXQ3sG &! Three Industry Trade Groups to File Briefs Supporting Apple - on.recode.net/1oTUdwx

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march 2016 by asterisk2a

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Shami Chakrabarti: ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in Britain? David Cameron’ | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian

The outgoing Liberty director explains why plans to scrap the Human Rights Act threaten freedom, and why she won’t stop campaigning [...] I ask Chakrabarti – once branded by the Sun as “the most dangerous woman in Britain” – who she thinks deserves the “most dangerous” hallmark now. “Right now? David Cameron.” She says. “Actually, can I have more than one? Then him and that particular group in the cabinet now who are dedicated to scrapping the Human Rights Act. That group. They are an existential threat to the rights and freedoms of the most vulnerable people in our country.” [...] investigatory powers bill. “We wouldn’t let the state impose identity cards, but these,” she holds up her phone, “these we buy.”

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march 2016 by asterisk2a

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Pando: At what point is the convenience of technology outweighed by the constant stress?

Yesterday, I wrote about new proposals to allow the government to trawl the social media accounts of visa applicants before allowing or denying entry to the US. Specifically, I wrote about my relief, as a visa-carrying foreign worker, at having deleted my social media accounts last year. For all the myriad reasons the government might declare me unworthy of living here -- particularly under President Trump -- at least an old dumb tweet won’t be one of them. [...] Connected technology was supposed to make our lives easier. And of course it has, in countless ways. But what it doesn’t seem to have done is made our lives less stressful...

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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NHS watchdog to 'monitor social media care complaints' - BBC News

Comments on social media will be used by England's health regulator to learn of possible NHS failings as part of an inspection overhaul, it is reported. [...] The CQC's budget is being cut and it expects to carry out fewer inspections. Mr Wyman told the newspaper the new strategy would not "rip up" the current approach to inspection, but "refine" its methods. [ Tories cut the budget of the regulator they have created - LOL ] [...] In the consultation document, the CQC says it expects its budget to be cut from £249m in the current financial year to £217 million in 2019-20.

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Erol Incedal terror case evidence to stay secret - BBC News

In their ruling, Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas and two other senior judges said there was a strong public interest in allowing reports about counter-terrorism police and the security services provided it does not "materially compromise the effectiveness of their role or otherwise might damage national security". //&! bit.ly/20qX1gt

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Harald Welzer: Unsere Freiheit ist bedroht, Sternstunde Philosophie vom 29.03.2015 - YouTube

"Wir der Konsumer sind das eigentliche produkt, das Firmen kaufen." [...] dieses system ist totalitaer. hat elemente von totalitarismus. [...] was bedeutet es fuer eine gesellschaft wenn das private verschwindet? [...] wir brauchen privats phaere, nicht offentlichen raum, fuer moderne buergerliche gesellschaft, [...] direkte einwirkung auf privates handeln "wenn man etwas nicht will das es nicht oeffentlich ist, soll man es nicht tun." [...] IoT ist neue welle, Industrie 4.0, wieder verlust der privatsphaere im haus [...] loss of autonomy - loss of decision making [...] man wehrt sich erst wenn man was erleidet, leidet [...]

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Video "Stark: Demokratie durch Überwachung in Gefahr" | Zapp | ARD Mediathek

Der "Spiegel" ist offenbar ins Visier von Geheimdiensten geraten, das Bundeskanzeleramt soll davon seit 2011 gewusst haben. "Spiegel"-Redakteur Stark zeigt sich erschüttert. // freie presse ist pfeiler der demokratie. - 4te gewalt. checks and balances. // mit hilfe von selectoren liste werden journalisten ueberwacht! und ihre bewegung via cellphone tracking. //&! spiegel.de/thema/national_security_agency/ //&! Vorratsdatenspeicherung schreckt Whistleblower ab. "Sammelwut verprellt Informanten." - bit.ly/1lCqrKZ - Vorratsdatenspeicherung hilft nicht bei Verbrechensaufklaerung.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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MONITOR vom 03.12.2015 - Monitor - ARD | Das Erste

[ Der Heuhaufen wird immer groesser. Aber wir brauchen die informationen ueber die Nadeln und die Operativen Kapazitaeten. ] Die Terroristen von Paris: Alles unter den Augen der Behörden? Der Drahtzieher der Paris-Attentate konnte sich monatelang vor den Anschlägen erstaunlich frei innerhalb Europas bewegen, seine radikalen Ansichten waren den Behörden zum großen Teil bekannt. Trotzdem griff niemand ein. Drei Wochen nach den Anschlägen verdichtet sich der Eindruck eines Versagens der Sicherheitsbehörden, an dem auch verschärfte Überwachungsgesetze nichts geändert hätten. //&! Bonn-Tannenbusch – das deutsche Molenbeek? - bit.ly/1lf3bmJ - [ Easy radicalisation is Symptom ]

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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How AOL Fits Into Verizon's Business - YouTube

- w data we can serve "great great" consumer experience, serve more targeted content (relevant, context), serve more (relevant, contextual) branded content (advertising, relevant adversing)

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Markus Beckedahl, Andre Meister: Kontrolle ist gut. #Landesverrat ist besser. - YouTube

// Statement von Georg Restle zu der Anzeige wegen Landesverrat gegen die Journalisten Markus Beckedahl und Andre Meister von Netzpolitik.org. - youtu.be/bLuu4ekznT8 // Verschwörung gegen die Freiheit (Doku, ZDF 2014) - youtu.be/HoTW5c2MEYQ // &! O-Ton GroKo - youtu.be/y9pRz5KQ6vo - Eiertanz: Viele, viele naive Fragen zum BND-Skandal // &! http://www.dctp.tv/filme/markus-beckedahl-netzpolitik-org/

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook files patent for credit worthiness based on your friend group | Hacker News

// Max Levchins - Affirm is rebuilding credit from the ground up. The FICO score was designed nearly 30 years ago, before universal internet access or smart phones -- it's time to reinvent lending for the current century.

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Marissa Mayer - The future of technology - YouTube

how you gonna make money, on mobile. Facebook is able to do it, enabled by data it has (targeting) and has a unrivaled competitive advantage (eats more than 70% of social media adversing budget). It's about execution now and new products - for Yahoo! Focus on Mobile, reorientate (right the ship in other direction, while still keeping tab on yahoo.com which is still sizeable business for yahoo) the company, management, team, employees. And acquisitions that help it make Yahoo! a mobile app company, relevant in the ecosystem (see Flurry acquisition, Brightroll, ... ad network/platform). Yahoos one disadvantage is that it doesn't have as much context to serve relevant - re-targeted ads to customers compared to FB, Twitter, Google. Same with Yahoo.com, its a bland/blunt page. No contextual, personal content nor advertising apart from cookies data derived. [...] "User data belongs to the end user." [...] "Portable" [...] "Standardized." [...] "Companies live and die by people/talent."

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Spotify says sorry after privacy policy anger - BBC News

The new terms included access to pictures, contact phone numbers and sensor data stored on the user's smartphone. Mr Ek apologised in a blogpost for the "confusion" the changes had created. He promised an "update" to the new policy in order to clarify it but did not suggest that the terms themselves would be changed. "We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will - and will not - be used," Mr Ek wrote. He said Spotify would not access or import people's photos, contacts, sensor or GPS data without their permission. [ but you agree that they can, by accepting the TOS. what they should have included was clear why. even if it would reveal future products and product features/changes ] // &! bit.ly/1TXXhFN // &! on.recode.net/1NDtOMh // &! bit.ly/1K9Wxr1 - its about collecting data, and selling this data, and showing you more targeted ads based on this data. Joining the ranks of everyone else.

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Apple Enables Ad-Blockers - Episode 048 — An Exhausting Week | Exponent

26:10 - Apple Enables Ad Blocking in iPhone browser Safari, native option, no add-on needed. Nudge publishers/content providers to implement iAd (Apple's AdSense Product) on their sites (mobile sites) as alternative 2 all what is out there. Or 2 nudge mobile site owners 2 make native Apps!? Apple: 'its about the user experience' & respects users privacy (anti-Google and co jab) because it only uses the data available from the user on his phone/apple id. // bit.ly/1hB7VRC - People are seriously talking abt whether the iPhone's new ad blocking technology will destroy the web [...] "In a worst case scenario, this is Apple against the entire mobile publisher and advertiser ecosystem." [...] people are very concerned abt what Apple is trying 2 do. [...] Google is already losing 10% of its revenue 2 adblockers // &! bit.ly/1Lan20N // &! Monetizing your iOS apps with iAd (pdf) apple.co/1NeVPtf &! iAd is Apples on ad network service, even for native apps - bit.ly/1DFFpHg &! bit.ly/1PbkSfq

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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NBCUniversal Buys Big Chunks of Vox Media and BuzzFeed | Re/code

[ independent outlets vanish from media landscape as the big ones invest or buy outright strategic (in their view) assets as they ponder the way forward into a future where they seem irrelevant (attributed at al by Facebook, Google, Twitter, dying newspaper, Appstore - the (smart)mobile phone, ... ] // Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff — again, my boss — says that in addition to the NBCUniversal investment, the two companies now have a commercial partnership. That means, among other things, that they will collaborate on digital advertising, will work together on video advertising and video programming, and that you will likely see Vox Media employees more frequently on NBCU-owned networks like CNBC. (Re/code already had and continues to have a news partnership with CNBC). [...] Buzzfeed [apparently has] a revenue goal of $250 million in 2015. [...] NBCU more or less ignored digital for quiet some time. Still TV dwarfs digital publishing in real-terms $ ads spend, but TV is declining steadily.

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Do You Trust Larry Page? - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Given the fact that Alphabet née Google is the second most valuable enterprise in the world, it’s striking to consider Larry Page’s 2014 assessment of the company he co-founded with Sergey Brin: I think we’ve not succeeded as much as we’d like. [...] Even Google’s famously far-reaching mission statement, to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, is not big enough for what he now has in mind. The aim: to use the money that is spouting from its search advertising business to stake out positions in boom industries of the future, from biotech to robotics. [...] Googles non-social approach to advertising vs Facebook and everyone else ] [ ad world begins finally to shift away from TV & other legacy forms & FB/Google are main beneficiaries coming years of changing ad spend ] [ Page/Brin want 2 lead the org 2 a new frontier. A new Google Search. &they think they a near it, ie self-driving car, that they think the timing is right NOW ]

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Apple is launching search engine to destroy Google — and you’re already using it | Calacanis.com

“Paid Inclusion” is basically the ads that consumers think are content, but are really ads. You can see this on your desktop by doing a search for “used iPhone.” The majority of the screen real estate is now ads! In the example above 11 of the 12 links are advertisements! [...] I could see Apple knocking 10 points off Google’s search business here in the USA in the next couple of years by simply making search an advertising-free piece of Apple’s OPERATING SYSTEM! [...] Apple is leapfrogging Google by making search something that is built into the core of your mobile phone and desktop. [ user experience, frictionless ] [...] Tim Cook is painting Google, accurately, as the evil successor to Microsoft, and Google’s management team is reinforcing this by closing ranks and destroying their partners. [ If its free to use, ... you are paying with your usage, with your data, your identity, ... ]

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Berlin’s Zeotap Raises $6.4M To Let Telcos Sell Customer Data To Mobile Advertisers | TechCrunch

[ the small print, its not free, ] Apparently, telecom operators are sitting on a huge amount of unique customer data that could provide much-needed revenue by being packaged up and sold to mobile advertisers and content providers to help them better target users. Or so says Zeotap, a startup that provides technology to enable telcos and marketers to unlock this potential treasure trove of user data. [...] for mobile advertisers the problem Zeotap is attempting to solve is the “severe shortage” of high-quality targeting data.

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Totale Kontrolle (ARTE Doku) - YouTube

"angriff auf das privatleben." // false feeling of safety. true criminals (not opportunists) are not fended off with personal surveillance installations. // Security is very wish wash and can not be easily defined. // False Flag organised crime, war on terror, ... to take step by step away some kind of remaining privacy and freedom. // NSA & Co sell their programs as reasonable and efficient (able to prevent X). No transparency. No accountability. // automatic verdaechdig // Chris Hedges & Noam Chomsky - Corporate State //

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june 2015 by asterisk2a

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Frankreich: Parlament beschließt Überwachungsgesetz - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Die Gegner finden die neuen Befugnisse deutlich zu breit, die Bedingungen zu unspezifisch, berichtet unter anderem die BBC. Neben der Terrorbekämpfung und "wichtigen außenpolitischen Interessen" ist dort beispielsweise auch von "industriellen und wissenschaftlichen Interessen" die Rede und der "Abwehr von Angriffen auf Institutionen der Republik". Die - wenigen - Kritiker des Gesetzes hatten im Vorfeld bemängelt, solche vagen Vorgaben könnten auch die Überwachung von politischen Aktivisten oder Journalisten rechtfertigen. /// http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32587377

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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Sascha Lobo: Wehren Sie sich gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung! - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Halt - klicken Sie nicht weg! Obwohl es um Überwachung geht. Denn heute hat die Bundesregierung die neue Version der Vorratsdatenspeicherung vorgestellt. Ich möchte Sie gern davon überzeugen, sich dagegen zu wehren. [...] weil die heute vorgestellte Vorratsdatenspeicherung auch in der neuen Form eine rote Linie überschreitet: Sie erlaubt offiziell, Unverdächtige zu überwachen. Auch Sie und Ihre Tochter. [...] Wie problematisch das ist, erkennt man an einem Satz, den Sie eventuell selbst schon gedacht haben: "Ich habe doch nichts zu verbergen." Die Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh hat übersetzt, was dieser Gedanke bedeutet: "Ich tue, was von mir verlangt wird." // &! http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/vorratsdatenspeicherung-regierung-stellt-verkehrsdatenerfassung-vor-a-1028714.html - Zehn Wochen Speicherung, E-Mails und Inhalte der Kommunikation sind ausgenommen: Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf Leitlinien für die neue Vorratsdatenspeicherung geeinigt.

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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AT&T is charging customers an extra $29 a month if they want to opt out of the company’s “Internet Preferences” program, which tracks “the webpages you visit, the time you spend on each, the links or ads you see and follow, and the search terms yo

"AT&T may collect and use web browsing information for other purposes, as described in our Privacy Policy, even if you do not participate in the Internet Preferences program."

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Linux Journal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In early July 2014 it was revealed that the NSA's XKeyscore program targeted readers of Linux Journal, which the NSA considers an "extremist forum". // &! NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance - http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance // &! NSA targets the privacy-conscious - http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-privacy-conscious,nsa230.html "Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA." - visiting site X puts you on watch list/collect data list - ie Wikileaks, Tor, Linux Journal, CCC unter anderem !+& bit.ly/1sZSWV9 >> leads to self-censorship like in East Germany.

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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How Silicon Valley’s counterculture went corporate and ruined everything | PandoDaily

Politicians, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, hippies, and corporations all working together to make the world a better place? In 2015, that arrangement seems unthinkable. So where did the dream of tech-powered togetherness go wrong? [...] [...] // As of last November, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,350 [£2200]. [...] So contrary to Gosney’s and Archer’s dream of a techno-utopia that benefits every slice of San Francisco’s population, the tech boom — along with various city statutes that limit residential housing — have made it harder than ever for artists and other members of the counterculture to live in the city. These are the very people, mind you, who helped spark the region’s technological revolution. And that’s saying nothing of the struggles felt by teachers, social workers and other non-tech workers struggling to stay afloat as housing prices skyrocket. [...] [C]ity officials and outdated statutes are as much to blame as tech companies

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

[...] Most people haven’t even heard of it, but Executive Order 12333 is the primary authority the NSA uses to engage in the surveillance of people outside the U.S. While Congress is considering much-needed reforms to the Patriot Act, there’s been almost no debate about Executive Order 12333. [...] [... and its also the private industry as contractor shovelling money for Wall Street shareholders, paid for by tax payer money ...]

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Nigerian Scammers Adopting More Sophisticated Attacks
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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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