Tag Archives: internet business

Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?

By Mark | December 10, 2013

On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AOL, Apple, big data, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, internet, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo | 8 Comments

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Scott Straley

By Mark | July 14, 2013

Feeling as though I needed to post an awesome Ypsi Immigration Interview to counterbalance last week’s depressing Exit Interview with my friend Melissa, I started going through my email archive, looking for letters from people who had written to me over the past year, telling me that they were thinking of moving to Ypsilanti, hoping […]