“Several human rights organizations will soon launch a campaign urging President Obama to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, coinciding with the premiere of the Oliver Stone biopic based on his life…”
Continue reading: The ACLU is launching a campaign to pardon Edward Snowden
“While the device is still far from ready for commercial distribution, Snowden and Huang note that they hope this case study will influence how individuals perceive their personal tracking devices they carry around in their pockets — also known as cell phones.”
Continue reading: Edward Snowden Develops Phone Case to Alert Users if Their Data is Being Compromised
“Every time you enter a shopping mall, go to a department store, visit an amusement park, enjoy a live professional sporting event, or use PayPal, you are being protected by people trying to maximize profit.”
Continue reading: Private Policing Isn’t a Fantasy
Related article: How Policing Works in a Privatized City — Jeffrey A. Tucker
How many other TSA assaults, gropings and other indignities never make the news, because they’ve become routine in the police state known as the American airport?
Wouldn’t many security systems be better than the TSA monopoly?
Continue reading: Should TSA suffer the death penalty for its crimes?
“The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements with foreign governments that would allow them for the first time to serve U.S. technology companies with warrants for email searches and wiretaps—a move that is already stirring debates over privacy, security, crime and terrorism.”
Continue reading: U.S. to Allow Foreigners to Serve Warrants on U.S. Internet Firms
Stone slammed tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, accusing them of “collaborating” with the government in the Snowden case.
“It’s a form of fascism — the sovereignty of the state versus the sovereignty of the individual,” he said. “It’s the reverse of the way this country was founded.”
Source: Oliver Stone Blasts tech giants for collaborating with the government
Sonia Sotomayor warned in a scathing dissent the Supreme Court’s pro-police ruling violates constitutional rights
“This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification, and check it for outstanding traffic warrants — even if you are doing nothing wrong”
Source: Police can use illegally obtained evidence in court, SCOTUS rules, sabotaging 4th Amendment
“The FBI wants to exempt its burgeoning national database of fingerprints and facial photos from a federal law that gives Americans the right to sue for government violations of the Privacy Act, such as refusing to tell a person if he or she is in the system.”
Source: FBI wants to exempt its huge fingerprint and photo database from privacy protections
”Court says your files are ripe for seizure—Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply.”
Source: All your disk image are belong to us, says appeals court