Showing posts with label database. Show all posts
Showing posts with label database. Show all posts

Healthcare.gov Shares Your Personal Data With Marketers

by Rob Hustle.    HealthCare.gov is sharing your private personal health data with over a dozen online marketing companies. These companies provide tools that allow HealthCare.gov to track, analyze and record anyone who visits the site. But, despite its promise that “no personally identifiable information is collected by these tools,” the     ... MORE

Tammy Bruce: Another Blow To ObamaCare Privacy

Personal medical info to be shared with 35 federal agencies. Get ready to fight back: Last week, the Health and Human Services Department announced a plan to share your medical records with over 35 federal agencies — all in the name of “health care,” of course. All in the name of “efficiency,” the favorite excuse used by fascists    ... MORE

Feds Creating Database To Track Hate Speech On Twitter

by Elizabeth Harrington.  The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major   ... MORE

Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist

by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Devereaux.    The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained  ... MORE

Julia Angwin: Has Privacy Become A Luxury Good?

Will the middle class be priced out of privacy?     Last year, I spent more than $2,200 and countless hours trying to protect my privacy. Some of the items I bought — a $230 service that encrypted my data in the Internet cloud; a $35 privacy filter to shield my laptop screen from coffee-shop voyeurs; and a $420 subscription to a portable      ...MORE

Does the Bell Toll for Excessive Public Pay?

by Steven Greenhut. “The art of government is to make two-thirds of the nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third,” mused Voltaire. Even that cynical French Enlightenment writer couldn’t imagine what would transpire one day in California, where a portion of the mere 15.3 percent of the public that works for government  ... MORE

Joseph Farah: Drones, Drones Everywhere

Government eyes will be your constant companion.      I don’t know what’s more threatening to liberty and privacy – the National Security Agency’s monstrous eavesdropping efforts and satellite surveillance on American citizens or the plans for massive expansion by local, state and federal governments of spying on us from     ... MORE

Brae Jaeger: Your Place In The Database

Don't think for a moment you're not important.     Regarding the American surveillance state, it seems that the truth comes out a little at a time. We learned about the FBI's Carnivore in the 1990s, which the copied internet data of people whom the agency deemed "reasonably suspicious."  In September 2001, we saw the worst attacks on   ... MORE

Daniel J. Flynn: The Real Creepy-Ass Crackers

A society of exhibitionists invites a government of voyeurs. If Americans were honest, we would change our national anthem from Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” to Rockwell’s 1984 hit “Somebody’s Watching Me.” The lyric “can the people on TV see me” surely fits America 2013 better than a dated 1814 reference to “the land of the free.” ... MORE

Juan Cole: Ten American Steps Toward A Police State

How politicians are making your world into a prison.    The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance and by restrictions on the movements of citizens. Police states are on a spectrum, and unfortunately in the past   ... MORE

Spying's The Real Story, Not Edward Snowden

by Gene Healy.   I promised myself to stay away from Orwell metaphors for the duration of the latest surveillance-state controversy. But the punditocracy's recent "two-minutes hate" against National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has me backsliding already. Judging by the vicious -- and irrelevant -- attacks on Snowden's character, all too  ... MORE

NSA Copies All Internet Data, Creates Dossiers On Users

The extent of government lawlessness is massive.       The Associated Press dropped a bombshell report yesterday that claims the NSA's secret Internet spy program Prism is just a small part of a much more "expansive and intrusive" digital spying effort. According to the AP, the NSA copies ALL INTERNET traffic in and out of the United     ... MORE

Why The 'Nothing To Hide' Crowd Should Be Worried

Scott Shackford on government surveillance.   Responding to a popular reaction to news of the National Security Agency’s massive data collection program, blogger Daniel Sieradski started a Twitter feed called “Nothing to Hide.” He has retweeted hundreds of people who have declared in one form or another that they are not concerned     ... MORE

Gene Healy: The Very Real Threat Posed By NSA

"It can't happen here" just did. As a Senate candidate in 2003, Barack Obama called the PATRIOT Act "shoddy and dangerous." Once safely in power, Obama started demonstrating his remarkable capacity for "growing in office" -- expanding federal powers while piously moralizing about their potential abuse. As a senator, he voted to         ... MORE

Philip Bump: How Big Is The NSA Police State, Really?

We don't know the half of it.      As you probably know, "the cloud" in Internet parlance isn't an actual cloud. The Internet's cloud refers to remote storage of information and the network that connects to it. What tech companies pitch as a nebulous intangibility is really just stacks and stacks of servers with direct connections to the rest of the world. Things   ... MORE

Why Obama Wanted NSA Data-Mining Program Kept Secret

by Mike Riggs. I was reading up on the National Security Agency's data-mining program when I came across this tweet by Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press: If the programs needed secrecy to succeed, will NSA shut them down now? If not, did they ever need be secret? Or did I just blow your mind? — Matt Apuzzo (@mattapuzzo) June 7, 2013     ... MORE

Lydia Warren: Government's $1.9 Billion Citizen Data Mine

Where our rulers store all of our information.     The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley. Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been    ... MORE