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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, privacy, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 9 Comments

Voting out the Michigan politicians who helped scrap the Bill of Rights

By Mark | January 1, 2012

A Reddit user who goes by the name of DrowningSink has compiled a list of potentially vulnerable politicians up for reelection in 2012, along with their voting records on controversial legislation, such as the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which, as we’ve discussed here repeatedly, gives the government the right to imprison American citizens […]