by Radley Balko. Everyone is presumed guilty. A while back, we noted a report showing
that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged
to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has
overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York Times reports
that National Security Agency data will ... MORE
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Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Obama And The Justice Dept. May Be Losing The P.R. Battle Over Encryption, But Watch The Larger War
by Scott Shackford. Nobody believes it’s ‘just one phone.’ The government fight to access your private digital data has another front brewing. The Department of Justice wants to be able to listen in on conversations on WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging and phone service owned by Facebook. Everybody who knows anything about ... MORE
Obama Advocates Government Access To All Devices
by Jeff Mason. No surprise that privacy invasion is the tyrant's choice. U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, Obama ... MORE
Demand Congress Back Down On Privacy Intrusion
by Ron Paul. The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about fighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time to find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth is they had long sought a way to break Apple’s iPhone encryption and, like 9/11 and the Patriot Act, a mass ... MORE
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Katie Kieffer: Apple Is On Your Side
Somebody has to protect individual liberty. Obama’s order for Apple to let him hack your iPhone is not about
fighting terror—it’s about iPhone dominion. This is the equivalent of
gun control except in the tech sector. Terrorism is one of the top two
issues concerning Americans, including Millennials. You deserve to know
why and how Obama’s ... MORE
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Yoni Heisler: Apple Takes On The FBI In Congress: Nine Things You May Have Missed From Yesterday’s Hearing
by Yoni Heisler. The policy debate sparked by Apple’s legal battle with the FBI has galvanized the tech world and has understandably attracted worldwide attention. At the core, Apple’s battle with the FBI centers on how we should strike a balance between user privacy and the interests of national security. Yesterday, both Apple and the FBI appeared ... MORE
Obama To Trash Reagan’s Restrictions On Domestic Spying
by Chriss W. Street. A tyrant's sneaky misdirection play. With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others. At a secret meeting of the United States National ... MORE
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Ted Rall: What The Apple Vs FBI Flap Is Really About
[Hint: Edward Snowden] The fight between Apple and the FBI has
been framed as an epic battle between big tech and big government.
Apple, says the Obama Administration, is siding with “its business model and public brand marketing strategy” ahead of public safety. That’s not it, says Apple CEO Tim Cook. He says his company is “a staunch ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Apple's Involuntary Servitude
Liberty and safety are not in equipoise. There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.” -Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016). After the San Bernardino massacre on Dec. 2, 2015, the FBI lawfully acquired the cellphone of one of the killers and ... MORE
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The FBI's Big Farce To Get Inside Your Phone
by Joshua Kopstein. “The most important tech case in a decade.” Earlier this week, the U.S. government dropped a bombshell in its ongoing crusade against strong encryption: A court order demanding that Apple help the Federal Bureau of Investigation bypass the security features of an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, who, along with his ... MORE
The Apple-FBI Fight Isn’t About Privacy Vs. Security
by Brian Barrett. Do not be misled. Throughout the ongoing fight between Apple and the FBI over custom access to an iPhone used by one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, the government has framed the argument as a simple trade-off: You must surrender a little privacy if you want more security. The scales don't balance quite ... MORE
Anybody Believe The FBI Isn’t Out To Defeat Encryption?
by Scott Shackford. FBI Director James Comey starts his defense
of their effort to force Apple to help them break into the iPhone of
San Bernardino terrorist and killer Syed Farook with a sentence that is
that is extremely hard to take seriously: "The San Bernardino litigation
isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message." ... MORE
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Over 50 Rallies Take Place In US Cities To Support Apple
by Tim Hardwick. Privacy campaigners held organized rallies across the US yesterday to protest the FBI's demands that Apple unlock the iPhone at the center of its San Bernardino shooter investigation. Following on from limited protests in California last week, rallies extended from Albuquerque to Washington DC to support Apple's insistence that complying ... MORE
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Rand Paul Weighs In On The Apple-FBI Dispute
by Elias J. Atienza. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told
CN2 that Apple shouldn’t be compelled to hack the encrypted iPhone of
San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook. Apple has strongly opposed a court
ordered request by the FBI to open the phone, citing that it could
create a backdoor and weaken the security and privacy of users. “What’s extraordinary ... MORE
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Tim Cook Is An American Hero: Apple Will Fight Against Court Order To Unlock iPhone To Government Searches
Side fighting for individual liberty is not the government. Tuesday night, a California court ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking an iPhone. It’s an unprecedented request, one with potentially huge repercussions for the privacy and security of every Apple customer. This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an impassioned defense ... MORE
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