Gaius Publius: Amazon Rips Off 238 Cities, States and Provinces, Then Builds in NYC and DC
More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
Read more...Category Archives: Surveillance state
How UK (and US) Surveillance Creates Havoc for Personal Data Movement Post Brexit
The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
Read more...Mark Ames: ShamiWitness: When Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated With The Most Influential ISIS Propagandist On Twitter
But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968
All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center Shuts Down Prison Debate Program
Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Read more...Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor
Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture
An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Chutzpah!
Read more...Gaius Publius: Facebook Launches TV News Feed; Fox News Prominently Featured
Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
Read more...Two Senate Democrats Call for Investigation into Smart TVs
Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...California Passes Online Privacy Law
California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...The Growth of America’s Militarized Law Enforcement System, a Product of a War Economy
The proliferation of military weapons and gear corresponds to that of para-militarized law enforcement officers.
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