Category: privacy
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America’s Surveillance Society
WTF are we doing? H/T: LGM
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This is just nuts
Man, shit is totally out of control. I am actually frightened. Just a tidbit from Glenn Greenwald: McConnell clearly described that in 1978, we enacted a law prohibiting warrantless eavesdropping; the Bush administration broke that law repeatedly; and the telecommunications companies actively participated in that lawbreaking. And now — as a matter of national security…
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Sometimes I am of two minds …
Legal wiretaps on rise in Colorado The number of phones secretly wiretapped by Colorado law enforcement hit a 10-year high last year, leading to large drug busts statewide while raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people. The increase in the court-authorized wiretaps was led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which used 108 wiretaps in…
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Britain’s Surveillance Society
“The World” had a fascinating and frightening report on surveillance in Britain.