Posted in Police State, Power & Control on Nov 15th, 2008 No Comments »
BREAKING: Patriot Act Reports on You Stay Sky High… And They’re Not About Terrorism
With the passage of the Patriot Act in 2001, the use of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the government regarding your behavior expanded greatly. The claim: snooping into your business would ferret out the terrorists in our midst. But new numbers released [...]
Posted in Power & Control, TECHnology on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista
by John Sullivan — last modified 2007-04-16 18:53
Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system is a giant step backward for your freedoms.
Usually, new software enables you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.
Vista enforces new forms of “Digital Rights Management (DRM)”. DRM is more accurately called Digital [...]
Posted in Internet, Power & Control on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
A Privacy Agenda For The New Administration
This is the first post in a three part series directed at restoring some of the civil liberties we’ve lost over the past eight years. Today’s post is about our privacy rights. We’ll follow this up early next week with our thoughts on intellectual property rights and government transparency.
As [...]
Posted in Police State, Power & Control on Oct 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
PA: Potty mouth pay-off
Ananova [UK]
“A US woman who was arrested and prosecuted for swearing at her toilet
has won nearly £12,000 in compensation. Dawn Herb’s legal fees will
also be paid as part of the out of court settlement with the city of
Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was arrested last year after a neighbour,
an off-duty police officer, heard her [...]