Tag Archives: privacy

Should we pursue perjury charges against the intelligence officials who swore to us that our calls and emails were not being monitored?

By Mark | June 16, 2013

As you may recall, last March, months before the recent bombshell allegations of domestic spying were made by 29-year old NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in sworn testimony before a Senate subcommittee, stated that the NSA does not “wittingly” collect any data at all on American citizens. Here’s video of [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged big data, blowjobs, domestic spying, eavesdropping, Edward Snowden, impeachment, intelligence, James Clapper, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Alexander, Kevvin A, NSA, perjury, security state, surveillance, Susan Collins, terrorism | 17 Comments

Is the NSA’s data mining more about domestic control than terrorism?

By Mark | June 12, 2013

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged big data, data mining, drawing, National Security Agency, NSA, observations, PRISM | 12 Comments

StopWatching.us, powered by Mozilla, seeks to catalyze a Big Data resistance movement

By Mark | June 12, 2013

Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Fowler, big data, data mining, domestic spying, Edward Snowden, FISA, internet, Mozilla, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, petitions, PIPA, PRISM, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 4 Comments

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden comes clean on why he turned over classified government documents to the press, just how much the intelligence community knows about us, and what his actions will likely cost him

By Mark | June 9, 2013

Earlier today, the identity of last week’s much-talked-about National Security Agency whistleblower was made public. His name is Edward Snowden, and he’s a former technical assistant for the CIA, who, most recently, worked for the NSA through the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d highly recommend that you watch [...]

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Guilty until proven innocent in the age of ubiquitous electronic surveillance

By Mark | June 6, 2013

Upon taking office, President Obama issued a memorandum on the subject of transparency: “My Administration,” he said, “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency [...]