by James Bovard. Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from ... MORE
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TSA Screens Holiday Travelers Once Again, With Feeling
by James Bovard. Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Paris And Freedom
Our liberties are NOT the problem. The tragedy in Paris last Friday has regrettably been employed as a catalyst for renewed calls by governments in western Europe and even in the United States for more curtailment of personal liberties. Those who accept the trade of liberty for safety have argued in favor of less liberty. They want ... MOREWatch The Amazing 'Love Gov' Series
See all five episodes. Love Gov portrays the federal government as an
overbearing boyfriend — Scott “Gov” Govinsky — who foists his “good
intentions” on a hapless, idealistic college student, Alexis. Each
episode follows Alexis's relationship with Gov as his intrusions wreak
(comic) havoc on her life, professionally, financially, and socially.
Alexis's loyal ... MOREIRS Possessed Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Gear - Why?
by Nicky Woolf and William Green. 13th federal agency to use secretive dragnet! The Internal Revenue Service is the latest in a growing list of US federal agencies known to have possessed the sophisticated cellphone dragnet equipment known as Stingray, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices obtained following a request ... MOREEvan Schuman: Turn That Old Phone Into A Privacy Device
New way to safeguard calls. Most forms of communication used by enterprises these days are highly prone to being intercepted, whether by law enforcement, cyberthieves, corporate spies, or wayward employees and contractors. That leaves enterprise IT open to new approaches to safeguard communications. I just saw one creative idea on the ... MORECharles P. Pierce: The Senate's New 'Give The NSA All Your Private Information' Bill Would Make George Orwell Blush
Scare tactics push big government agenda forward. While nobody was watching, the Senate a couple of days ago passed
something called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which
passed at least partly because if you say "Cyber warfare,
boogedy-boogedy!" around nervous legislators these days, they'll pass a
bill agreeing to ... MOREHow Jeb Bush Would Destroy The Internet & Your Privacy
by Trevor Timm. Do you want to live in a country where Internet Service Providers can slow down and censor your internet traffic at will, where the NSA has vastly more power than it does today and where end-to-end encryption may be illegal? Then Jeb Bush is the Republican presidential contender for you: he has positioned himself ... MORENorth Carolina Teen Prosecuted For Taking Naked Selfie
by Tara Culp-Ressler. Gov't figures a little prison time should fix him. A 17-year-old in North Carolina struck a plea deal last week to avoid serving jail time on felony sex offender charges. His crime? Taking a nude photo of himself. The photo in question was discovered when the teenager’s cell phone was searched during a wider investigation ... MORECalifornia: Protect Your Driver's License Privacy
by Jeremy Gillula and Dave Maass. The California Legislature wants the DMV to start issuing “Enhanced Driver Licenses” (EDL), similar to a REAL ID, that contain an RFID tag that could expose information about you from up to 30 feet away. We need your help to bring S.B. 249 to a screeching halt by calling or emailing your state legislator today. ... MOREBig Government Update:The California Gas Restriction Act Of 2015 Spells The End Of Privacy For California Drivers
Big Brother is watching. The California Gas Restriction Act of 2015, Senate Bill 350, not only is a reckless political agenda but one that will raise costs drastically in California, burden the State with yet more regulations, and eliminate citizens’ privacy. Regulators now have a plan to monitor personal driving data that can be used to enforce gas ... MOREOrwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MORESteve Weis: When Curtains Block Justice
A parody of “When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice”. In June, a laptop was stolen
from a bedroom on a Monday afternoon in Palo Alto, CA, a suburb 15 miles
south of San Francisco. There were no witnesses to the larceny, and no
surveillance footage either. With a laptop thief on the loose and few leads at their disposal, investigators ... MOREAT&T Has “Partnership” With NSA To Spy On US Internet
by Clayton Browne. Your world delivered. The most recent release of secret documents by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
makes it clear that telecom giant AT&T has been actively
cooperating with the NSA in its large scale program to spy on the
internet traffic of Americans. Based on the documents, it appears that AT&T has been ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Chris Christie vs. Rand Paul
Or, King George vs. Thomas Jefferson. The dust-up between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over presidential fidelity to the Constitution – particularly the Fourth Amendment – was the most illuminating two minutes of the Republican debate last week. It is a well-regarded historical truism that the Fourth Amendment was ... MORETimothy Williams: Facial Recognition Software Used To Identify Terrorists Now Deployed By The Local Police
'Public servants' treat citizens as potential suspects. Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country to pursue drug dealers, prostitutes and other conventional ... MOREChris Christie And Rand Paul Reflect The Clash Between The GOP's Authoritarian And Libertarian Tendencies
by Jacob Sullum. One of the most telling moments in last week's Republican presidential debate came when moderator Megyn Kelly asked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to defend his position that Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator, should be held responsible for the next terrorist attack on Americans because he opposes the National Security Agency's ... MOREPaul Rosenberg: Why You Must Dump Microsoft NOW
"they redefined their operating system to be spyware." I’ve written about dumping Microsoft before
– and I stand by those comments – but the newest outrage from Redmond
forces me to it again. I don’t care how “inconvenient” you think it may
be, you have to stop enriching Microsoft. NOW. Yes, I have serious issues with Apple too, but ... MOREJacob Sullum: Suspended Cops Say Video Of Them Eating Marijuana Edibles During a Raid Violated Their Privacy
A classic cop-out. Remember the Santa Ana, California, cops who were caught on video munching on what seem to be cannabis-infused chocolate bars after raiding an unlicensed medical marijuana dispensary in May? The Orange County Register reports
that three officers who were suspended after the incident are trying to
stop the Santa Ana Police ... MORE
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