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04/17/16 06:52:21
Editor, This is the era when the processing of Big Data by artificial intelligence is revealing things about you and your past that even you don’t know -- revealed not to you, but to those who are looking to use what they find to act maliciously against you, both transnational criminal enterprises, and Big Government saying it is all for the greater good, of course. No, this is not the kind of AI that is beating the best GO player in the world; that kind of pattern recognition is superficial. This kind has built-in motive to spy on everything you do, in conjunction with everything you are in your being and every genetic predisposition you have in your body. What in the world is this snooping, often through secret malware, going to make humanity into, even as the slightest sliver of wrongdoing is used to, say, rejecting a generally bright graduate from getting that job? What letter of recommendation will not come through, given the professor knows, through the mandatory dossier every university is required to keep on your psychology (paid for by the FBI, given all the mass shootings on campus), that you profile out to be simply a creative genius of the tinkering kind, who would not be the right material for a narrow, tunneling researcher within a super-specialized field, as in pursuing a Ph.D? Would then the vast mass of people simply become like goodie-goodie boy scouts and girl scouts, spooked into good conduct and playing only cookie-cutter roles throughout their lives in resigned acceptance of everything that is not the next right thing to do being wrong, of every step sideways from the straight and narrow resulting in a fall off a steep cliff, so to speak – all such deviations flagged as such while presented by social media scans by parties who do not exactly have our best interests at heart?
Editor,
This is the era when the processing of Big Data by artificial intelligence is revealing things about you and your past that even you don’t know -- revealed not to you, but to those who are looking to use what they find to act maliciously against you, both transnational criminal enterprises, and Big Government saying it is all for the greater good, of course.
No, this is not the kind of AI that is beating the best GO player in the world; that kind of pattern recognition is superficial. This kind has built-in motive to spy on everything you do, in conjunction with everything you are in your being and every genetic predisposition you have in your body.
What in the world is this snooping, often through secret malware, going to make humanity into, even as the slightest sliver of wrongdoing is used to, say, rejecting a generally bright graduate from getting that job? What letter of recommendation will not come through, given the professor knows, through the mandatory dossier every university is required to keep on your psychology (paid for by the FBI, given all the mass shootings on campus), that you profile out to be simply a creative genius of the tinkering kind, who would not be the right material for a narrow, tunneling researcher within a super-specialized field, as in pursuing a Ph.D?
Would then the vast mass of people simply become like goodie-goodie boy scouts and girl scouts, spooked into good conduct and playing only cookie-cutter roles throughout their lives in resigned acceptance of everything that is not the next right thing to do being wrong, of every step sideways from the straight and narrow resulting in a fall off a steep cliff, so to speak – all such deviations flagged as such while presented by social media scans by parties who do not exactly have our best interests at heart?
Read more @ http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2016/04/7-ahuja-letter
The US government is developing a policy that would allow the Justice Department to prosecute criminals based on evidence acquired secretly by the National Security Agency (NSA), Human Rights Watch said in a press release. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The new policy would allow the NSA to share data with other US intelligence agencies, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Robert Litt, said last month.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The new policy would allow the NSA to share data with other US intelligence agencies, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Robert Litt, said last month.
Read more @ http://sputniknews.com/us/20160412/1037849674/nsa-spying-data-prosecution.html
As swiftly as it was announced, Edward Snowden's schedule of virtual appearances in Australia has been dramatically curtailed. ThinkInc, the edu-tainment firm that originally planned for the ex-National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower to make live video appearances in nearly all of Australia's capital cities, has reduced those appearances to just two – Sydney and Melbourne. "Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we have been forced to cancel the Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane shows," the group said in a statement to ticket buyers.
As swiftly as it was announced, Edward Snowden's schedule of virtual appearances in Australia has been dramatically curtailed.
ThinkInc, the edu-tainment firm that originally planned for the ex-National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower to make live video appearances in nearly all of Australia's capital cities, has reduced those appearances to just two – Sydney and Melbourne.
"Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we have been forced to cancel the Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane shows," the group said in a statement to ticket buyers.
Read more @ http://www.smh.com.au/world/edward-snowdens-australian-virtual-tour-dates-dramatically-cut-back-20160414-go6dw2.html
Microsoft on Thursday filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the gag orders that accompany requests to access customers' private emails and other data. The orders prevent the company from notifying affected customers about the government's demands. The case is the fourth public lawsuit it has filed against the Justice Department in three years, including a lawsuit challenging a search warrant for a customer's emails in Ireland. The orders violate customers' privacy rights, the company has maintained. Microsoft has new data on the growing problem of secrecy orders and wants to propose new Justice Department and congressional actions that could resolve the issue, according to Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith.
Microsoft on Thursday filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the gag orders that accompany requests to access customers' private emails and other data. The orders prevent the company from notifying affected customers about the government's demands.
The case is the fourth public lawsuit it has filed against the Justice Department in three years, including a lawsuit challenging a search warrant for a customer's emails in Ireland.
The orders violate customers' privacy rights, the company has maintained.
Microsoft has new data on the growing problem of secrecy orders and wants to propose new Justice Department and congressional actions that could resolve the issue, according to Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith.
Read more @ http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83372.html
Read more @ http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2454814/microsoft-sues-us-government-over-right-to-warn-customers-of-spying
Venture firm In-Q-Tel has reportedly invested in startups to advance the CIA's online monitoring. The CIA's venture capital firm has reportedly invested in several companies designing technologies that would help the government collect social media information and rapidly process it to spot people viewed as potential threats. Documents obtained by The Intercept say the firm, called In-Q-Tel, funded four companies that specialize in social media mining and surveillance. The news website identified the companies as PATHAR, Geofeedia, TransVoyant and Dataminr. In-Q-Tel's new startup investments would make it easier for the CIA to collect and analyze data to give people "so-called threat scores" based on their online speech, personal contacts and other activities, says Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. Large-scale social media surveillance by law enforcement occurs whether or not people have committed a crime, she says. "The government should not be in the business of suspicionless surveillance," she says.
The CIA's venture capital firm has reportedly invested in several companies designing technologies that would help the government collect social media information and rapidly process it to spot people viewed as potential threats.
Documents obtained by The Intercept say the firm, called In-Q-Tel, funded four companies that specialize in social media mining and surveillance. The news website identified the companies as PATHAR, Geofeedia, TransVoyant and Dataminr.
In-Q-Tel's new startup investments would make it easier for the CIA to collect and analyze data to give people "so-called threat scores" based on their online speech, personal contacts and other activities, says Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. Large-scale social media surveillance by law enforcement occurs whether or not people have committed a crime, she says.
"The government should not be in the business of suspicionless surveillance," she says.
Read more @ http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-15/cia-tech-firm-seeks-more-social-media-spying
On Tuesday, Uber released its first ever transparency report, revealing some unsettling news for privacy advocates. The San Francisco-based ride-sharing company said that in the last half of 2015, it provided information on over 12 million riders and drivers to U.S. regulators. On top of the data going to regulators, Uber also provided information on 469 users to various state and federal law enforcement agencies. Uber said that the agencies requested information on trips, requests, pickup and drop-off spots, fares, and vehicles. According to the report, Uber received 415 requests from law enforcement agencies and was able to provide data in about 85% of the cases. A large percentage of the cases were related to fraud or credit card theft. It is unclear exactly what U.S. regulators did with the data, but Uber did say that it has not received any national security related requests or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.
On Tuesday, Uber released its first ever transparency report, revealing some unsettling news for privacy advocates. The San Francisco-based ride-sharing company said that in the last half of 2015, it provided information on over 12 million riders and drivers to U.S. regulators.
On top of the data going to regulators, Uber also provided information on 469 users to various state and federal law enforcement agencies. Uber said that the agencies requested information on trips, requests, pickup and drop-off spots, fares, and vehicles.
According to the report, Uber received 415 requests from law enforcement agencies and was able to provide data in about 85% of the cases. A large percentage of the cases were related to fraud or credit card theft.
It is unclear exactly what U.S. regulators did with the data, but Uber did say that it has not received any national security related requests or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.
Read more @ http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/213103/is-uber-spying-on-you-for-the-government
Almost a year ago, the FBI admitted it was behind a “mystery plane” circling over several locations in the Twin Cities for a few days, ending a social media firestorm in which people demanded to know who owned the plane and what it was doing. Curiously, once the FBI said “it’s us,” the questioning pretty much ended. Apparently, we don’t mind the government spying on us as much as we dislike someone we don’t know spying on us. Now, BuzzFeed has put together a clearer picture of how extensive this spying operation is. It’s extensive in the Minneapolis area…
Almost a year ago, the FBI admitted it was behind a “mystery plane” circling over several locations in the Twin Cities for a few days, ending a social media firestorm in which people demanded to know who owned the plane and what it was doing.
Curiously, once the FBI said “it’s us,” the questioning pretty much ended. Apparently, we don’t mind the government spying on us as much as we dislike someone we don’t know spying on us.
Now, BuzzFeed has put together a clearer picture of how extensive this spying operation is. It’s extensive in the Minneapolis area…
Read more @ http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/04/spy-planes-overhead-still-keeping-an-eye-on-minneapolis-why/
Americans living abroad tend to have special point of view on U.S. elections. Things like taxes, immigration, and even voting rights can all affect you a little differently from thousands of miles away. There's one American, though, in particular who has a stake in the outcome of the 2016 election: Edward Snowden. He's what you might call a single-issue voter. He's jonesing for America after nearly three years in exile in Russia and said he would turn himself in on negotiated terms. The next president could make that happen — or not. So who would Edward Snowden vote for? First off, if you're thinking his run from the law would make him ineligible to vote, you're wrong. He faces espionage charges for leaking the classified NSA documents that proved the government agency was collecting telephone records on millions of American citizens — not to mention their internet data through program that tapped into the servers of big firms like Google and Yahoo. He hasn't been convicted of anything yet, though, and his lawyers say there's no precedent to stop him from casting his ballot. Snowden's lawyer, Ben Wizner, director of the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, explained to The Daily Dot:
Americans living abroad tend to have special point of view on U.S. elections. Things like taxes, immigration, and even voting rights can all affect you a little differently from thousands of miles away. There's one American, though, in particular who has a stake in the outcome of the 2016 election: Edward Snowden. He's what you might call a single-issue voter. He's jonesing for America after nearly three years in exile in Russia and said he would turn himself in on negotiated terms. The next president could make that happen — or not. So who would Edward Snowden vote for?
First off, if you're thinking his run from the law would make him ineligible to vote, you're wrong. He faces espionage charges for leaking the classified NSA documents that proved the government agency was collecting telephone records on millions of American citizens — not to mention their internet data through program that tapped into the servers of big firms like Google and Yahoo. He hasn't been convicted of anything yet, though, and his lawyers say there's no precedent to stop him from casting his ballot.
Snowden's lawyer, Ben Wizner, director of the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, explained to The Daily Dot:
Read more @ http://www.bustle.com/articles/154661-who-does-edward-snowden-support-for-president-the-famous-whistleblower-can-still-vote-for-his-choice
Never mind government spies, it's companies that have Kiwis uneasy about online snooping. A major survey of New Zealand internet users found close to half of people were concerned companies were violating their privacy online, while just a third held the same concerns about Government. The World Internet Project New Zealand survey canvassed nearly 1400 people last year, quizzing them on everything from privacy to how often they paid bills online. The AUT University researcher who led the project believed media coverage of online privacy issues might explain why respondents reported greater concerns over corporates accessing their data. "One possible explanation is the news coverage about the sort of information companies are able to access as a result of people agreeing to use their apps, social networking sites or websites," Dr Philippa Smith said. "People may also be getting a sense of that intrusion on their online privacy when they suddenly get an email or a pop-up on their browser selling them something which is close to what they might have been searching or reading about on the internet."
Never mind government spies, it's companies that have Kiwis uneasy about online snooping.
A major survey of New Zealand internet users found close to half of people were concerned companies were violating their privacy online, while just a third held the same concerns about Government.
The World Internet Project New Zealand survey canvassed nearly 1400 people last year, quizzing them on everything from privacy to how often they paid bills online.
The AUT University researcher who led the project believed media coverage of online privacy issues might explain why respondents reported greater concerns over corporates accessing their data.
"One possible explanation is the news coverage about the sort of information companies are able to access as a result of people agreeing to use their apps, social networking sites or websites," Dr Philippa Smith said.
"People may also be getting a sense of that intrusion on their online privacy when they suddenly get an email or a pop-up on their browser selling them something which is close to what they might have been searching or reading about on the internet."
Read more @ http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11622051
If legendary British spy-turned-KGB mole Kim Philby was alive to offer arrested U.S. Navy officer Edward Lin advice — regardless of his guilt or innocence — we know what it would be. Despite repeatedly coming under suspicion, Philby fed British and American secrets to Moscow for three decades before ultimately defecting in 1963. His survival, he told officers of the East German Stasi spy service in 1981, was partly down to organizational ineptitude and his privileged position as a member of Britain’s ruling class. But it was also, he said, simply down to the fact that when challenged, he always maintained his innocence. Even when confronted with incriminating evidence in his own handwriting, he simply denied having anything to do with it. “All I had to do really was keep my nerve,” said Philby according to a recording found by the BBC and published this month. “So my advice to you is to tell all your agents that they are never to confess.” For Taiwanese-American Lieutenant Commander Lin, it may already be too late for that. The United States government remains remarkably tight lipped — for now, it remains unclear whether he is suspected of spying for mainland China or only Taiwan. All that is known for sure is that he faces charges of espionage, attempted espionage and a charge of patronizing a prostitute.
If legendary British spy-turned-KGB mole Kim Philby was alive to offer arrested U.S. Navy officer Edward Lin advice — regardless of his guilt or innocence — we know what it would be.
Despite repeatedly coming under suspicion, Philby fed British and American secrets to Moscow for three decades before ultimately defecting in 1963. His survival, he told officers of the East German Stasi spy service in 1981, was partly down to organizational ineptitude and his privileged position as a member of Britain’s ruling class.
But it was also, he said, simply down to the fact that when challenged, he always maintained his innocence. Even when confronted with incriminating evidence in his own handwriting, he simply denied having anything to do with it.
“All I had to do really was keep my nerve,” said Philby according to a recording found by the BBC and published this month. “So my advice to you is to tell all your agents that they are never to confess.”
For Taiwanese-American Lieutenant Commander Lin, it may already be too late for that. The United States government remains remarkably tight lipped — for now, it remains unclear whether he is suspected of spying for mainland China or only Taiwan. All that is known for sure is that he faces charges of espionage, attempted espionage and a charge of patronizing a prostitute.
Read more @ http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/04/14/why-computers-may-never-replace-human-spies/
Read more @ http://fusion.net/story/289903/james-baker-fbi-color-of-surveillance/
Read more @ http://www.timesofisrael.com/information-held-by-pollard-still-top-secret-could-damage-us/
MARK COLVIN: Before the Internet, privacy was simple. Broadly speaking, anyone who opened enveloped and read your post or eavesdropped on your phone conversations was breaking the law unless they had a warrant. Digital phone calls and written conversations it seems are different. Yesterday saw the first confirmation by the Federal Police that it had scoured the metadata of a journalist's phone and emails without a warrant. Under Federal laws, telecos have to keep records of when, where and how we use mobile phones and search the web. But it's not just governments; more and more private corporations and big business has the same kind of information. But how many people really understand the privacy sacrifice every time the sign up for another app?
Read more @ http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2016/s4444174.htm
Despite applications closing in February, the government still has not called upon its industry working group to divvy up the almost AU$130 million in funding to compensate telcos for data-retention compliance.
Read more @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/government-yet-to-consider-au128m-data-retention-grants-comms-alliance-ceo/
Read more @ http://www.telecompaper.com/news/australian-telcos-still-unsure-about-data-retention-costs--1138354
Read more @ http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/597778/government-needs-act-data-retention-funding-communications-alliance/
NSA whistleblower responds to admission by Australian federal police that it investigated leaks to a Guardian journalist by requesting his metadata Edward Snowden has condemned Australian law enforcement for collecting the communications records of a Guardian journalist without a warrant. The world’s most prominent whistleblower, who disclosed dragnet surveillance unprecedented in its scale by the National Security Agency and its allies, singled out for critique the Australian government’s contention that it broke no laws in its leak investigation of Paul Farrell, a Guardian reporter who in 2014 exposed the inner workings of Australia’s maritime interception of asylum seekers. “Police in developed democracies don’t pore over journalists’ private activities to hunt down confidential sources,” Snowden told the Guardian. “The Australian federal police are defending such operations as perfectly legal, but that’s really the problem, isn’t it? Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.”
NSA whistleblower responds to admission by Australian federal police that it investigated leaks to a Guardian journalist by requesting his metadata
Edward Snowden has condemned Australian law enforcement for collecting the communications records of a Guardian journalist without a warrant.
The world’s most prominent whistleblower, who disclosed dragnet surveillance unprecedented in its scale by the National Security Agency and its allies, singled out for critique the Australian government’s contention that it broke no laws in its leak investigation of Paul Farrell, a Guardian reporter who in 2014 exposed the inner workings of Australia’s maritime interception of asylum seekers.
“Police in developed democracies don’t pore over journalists’ private activities to hunt down confidential sources,” Snowden told the Guardian.
“The Australian federal police are defending such operations as perfectly legal, but that’s really the problem, isn’t it? Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.”
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/17/edward-snowden-on-police-pursuing-journalist-data-the-scandal-is-what-the-law-allows
David Davis says data retention laws turn ‘entire nation into suspects’, but UK lawyers say they are vital to terrorism cases The British government is “treating the entire nation as suspects” by ignoring safeguards on retaining and accessing personal communications data, according to the Conservative MP David Davis. Speaking before the opening of a test case at the European court of justice (ECJ), the former home affairs spokesman called for improved protections to prevent state abuses through bulk interception of private emails and online exchanges. Davis and the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, have jointly challenged the legality of the government’s Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (Dripa).
David Davis says data retention laws turn ‘entire nation into suspects’, but UK lawyers say they are vital to terrorism cases
The British government is “treating the entire nation as suspects” by ignoring safeguards on retaining and accessing personal communications data, according to the Conservative MP David Davis.
Speaking before the opening of a test case at the European court of justice (ECJ), the former home affairs spokesman called for improved protections to prevent state abuses through bulk interception of private emails and online exchanges.
Davis and the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, have jointly challenged the legality of the government’s Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (Dripa).
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/12/mp-david-davis-calls-limit-uk-surveillance-powers-european-court-justice
Outcome of hearing at European court of justice likely to influence final shape of government’s investigatory powers bill The legality of Britain’s surveillance laws will come under the intense scrutiny of 15 European judges on Tuesday in a politically sensitive test case that could limit powers to gather online data. The outcome of the hearing at the European court of justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg is likely to influence the final shape of the government’s investigatory powers bill and will test judicial relationships within the EU. Around a dozen EU states including the UK have intervened in the challenge against the government’s Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (Dripa) that was originally brought by two MPs, the Conservative David Davis and Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson. The British case is being heard in conjunction with a Swedish case based on similar principles.
Outcome of hearing at European court of justice likely to influence final shape of government’s investigatory powers bill
The legality of Britain’s surveillance laws will come under the intense scrutiny of 15 European judges on Tuesday in a politically sensitive test case that could limit powers to gather online data.
The outcome of the hearing at the European court of justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg is likely to influence the final shape of the government’s investigatory powers bill and will test judicial relationships within the EU.
Around a dozen EU states including the UK have intervened in the challenge against the government’s Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (Dripa) that was originally brought by two MPs, the Conservative David Davis and Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson. The British case is being heard in conjunction with a Swedish case based on similar principles.
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/11/european-court-to-consider-legality-of-uk-surveillance-laws
Read more @ http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450281281/Government-surveillance-under-fire-across-Europe
Those against would protest that it is a gross intrusion of privacy, but there are benefits in public disclosure Should all tax returns be available online? Most people’s knee-jerk reaction is that it would be absolutely horrifying for everyone to see what you earn. It’s an entirely private matter between you, your employer and the taxman. It would be a gross intrusion of privacy if it was made available to the public – and worse, to the newspapers. But these same arguments were used when we were first allowed to see sold house price data. It would be nothing less than a “snoopers charter”, argued some, with nosy curtain-twitchers checking out the silly price the neighbours paid for that dump next door. Today, hardly anybody thinks it’s intrusive that sold house prices are published all over the internet, except perhaps Tony Blair and family, when we learn they have hoovered up their zillionth buy-to-let property. If we took the plunge and opened up HM Revenue & Customs to scrutiny, might we get over our ourselves and see the benefit from public disclosure? In Norway, no one can disguise their earnings, with every tax return made available to anyone in the country to inspect. It’s not just a matter of the prime minister grudgingly forced into disclosing. Workers can see what their colleagues are earning, and neighbours can snoop on how much the people next door are making – all legally, and all available online.
Those against would protest that it is a gross intrusion of privacy, but there are benefits in public disclosure
Should all tax returns be available online? Most people’s knee-jerk reaction is that it would be absolutely horrifying for everyone to see what you earn. It’s an entirely private matter between you, your employer and the taxman. It would be a gross intrusion of privacy if it was made available to the public – and worse, to the newspapers.
But these same arguments were used when we were first allowed to see sold house price data. It would be nothing less than a “snoopers charter”, argued some, with nosy curtain-twitchers checking out the silly price the neighbours paid for that dump next door.
Today, hardly anybody thinks it’s intrusive that sold house prices are published all over the internet, except perhaps Tony Blair and family, when we learn they have hoovered up their zillionth buy-to-let property.
If we took the plunge and opened up HM Revenue & Customs to scrutiny, might we get over our ourselves and see the benefit from public disclosure?
In Norway, no one can disguise their earnings, with every tax return made available to anyone in the country to inspect. It’s not just a matter of the prime minister grudgingly forced into disclosing. Workers can see what their colleagues are earning, and neighbours can snoop on how much the people next door are making – all legally, and all available online.
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2016/apr/16/should-we-all-post-tax-returns-online
OKLAHOMA CITY (April 15, 2016) – Yesterday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would put limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state, and place significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track the location of millions of everyday people through pictures of their license plates. Sen. Nathan Dahm introduced Senate Bill 1144 (SB1144) in February. The legislation would restrict the use of ALPRs to specific law enforcement functions, and place strict limits on the storage and sharing of any data collected by such systems. SB1144 passed the House by a 51-27 vote. Last month, it unanimously passed the Senate 45-0. Since the House made some technical amendments to the bill, it will now need to go back to the Senate for concurrence. The bill’s strength lies in its strict limits on data retention and sharing. Government agencies would be prohibited from sharing this data, or retaining data for more than 14 days without a warrant, a court issued preservation order or if the information is part of an ongoing investigation provided the data is a confirmed match to an alert. Any data retained as part of an ongoing investigation must be immediately destroyed at the conclusion of the investigation.
OKLAHOMA CITY (April 15, 2016) – Yesterday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would put limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state, and place significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track the location of millions of everyday people through pictures of their license plates.
Sen. Nathan Dahm introduced Senate Bill 1144 (SB1144) in February. The legislation would restrict the use of ALPRs to specific law enforcement functions, and place strict limits on the storage and sharing of any data collected by such systems.
SB1144 passed the House by a 51-27 vote. Last month, it unanimously passed the Senate 45-0. Since the House made some technical amendments to the bill, it will now need to go back to the Senate for concurrence.
The bill’s strength lies in its strict limits on data retention and sharing. Government agencies would be prohibited from sharing this data, or retaining data for more than 14 days without a warrant, a court issued preservation order or if the information is part of an ongoing investigation provided the data is a confirmed match to an alert. Any data retained as part of an ongoing investigation must be immediately destroyed at the conclusion of the investigation.
Read more @ http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/04/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-to-restrict-alpr-use-help-block-national-license-plate-tracking-program/
When we interviewed him last year, the French electronic pioneer asked for our help in putting together a track with the NSA whistleblower The Guardian’s coverage of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks has had a wide variety of repercussions, but perhaps none are as improbable as the latest: a collaboration between the 32-year-old whistleblower and French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, on a techno track to be released this weekend. “Edward is an absolute hero of our times,” said Jarre, whose piece with Snowden, called Exit, appears on his forthcoming album of collaborations, Electronica Volume II: The Heart Of Noise, the former CIA employee making an unlikely appearance on a list of special guests that also includes the Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan and rapper Peaches. “When I first read about him, it made me think of my mother,” said Jarre. “She joined the French resistance in 1941, when people in France still thought they were just troublemakers, and she always told me that when society is generating things you can’t stand, you have to stand up against it. The whole Electronica project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side we have the world in our pocket, on on the other, we are spied on constantly. There are tracks about the erotic relationship we have with technology, the way we touch our smartphones more than our partners, about CCTV surveillance, about love in the age of Tindr. It seemed quite appropriate to collaborate not with a musician but someone who literally symbolises this crazy relationship we have with technology.”
When we interviewed him last year, the French electronic pioneer asked for our help in putting together a track with the NSA whistleblower
The Guardian’s coverage of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks has had a wide variety of repercussions, but perhaps none are as improbable as the latest: a collaboration between the 32-year-old whistleblower and French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, on a techno track to be released this weekend.
“Edward is an absolute hero of our times,” said Jarre, whose piece with Snowden, called Exit, appears on his forthcoming album of collaborations, Electronica Volume II: The Heart Of Noise, the former CIA employee making an unlikely appearance on a list of special guests that also includes the Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan and rapper Peaches.
“When I first read about him, it made me think of my mother,” said Jarre. “She joined the French resistance in 1941, when people in France still thought they were just troublemakers, and she always told me that when society is generating things you can’t stand, you have to stand up against it. The whole Electronica project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side we have the world in our pocket, on on the other, we are spied on constantly. There are tracks about the erotic relationship we have with technology, the way we touch our smartphones more than our partners, about CCTV surveillance, about love in the age of Tindr. It seemed quite appropriate to collaborate not with a musician but someone who literally symbolises this crazy relationship we have with technology.”
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/15/jean-michel-jarre-records-with-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/edward-snowden-releases-song-with-french-artist-jeanmichel-jarre/news-story/ae8367debe81f0a7b25e9432d85f85eb
Read more @ https://newrepublic.com/minutes/132750/edward-snowdens-techno-song-dorky-great
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