Jeremy Bash served on committee advising on sales of company’s Pegasus spyware to foreign agencies
Biden intelligence adviser previously vetted deals for Israeli NSO Group
Tag: Privacy Rights
Google Forces Employee to Resign for Speaking Against $1 Billion Israeli Project
A Google Employee, Ariel Koren, has been forced to resign by Google after she opposed a billion-dollar deal between Google, Amazon, the Israeli government, and the military.
Google Forces Employee to Resign for Speaking Against $1 Billion Israeli Project
Related:
Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Why Is A British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?
Would you be surprised to find out that the censorial, moral panic bill based on hype and nonsense, but very likely to pass in California and potentially change how the internet functions… was actually written by a British noble with a savior complex?
Why Is A British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?
Sounds like more censorship and narrative control! Not to mention, privacy rights violations!
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Read More »Rampant Data Broker Sale Of Pregnancy Data Gets Fresh Scrutiny Post Roe
from the the-check-is-coming-due-for-apathy dept
Mon, Aug 15th 2022 06:29am – Karl Bode
For decades now, privacy advocates warned we were creating a dystopia through our rampant over-collection and monetization of consumer data. And just as often, those concerns were greeted with calls of “consumers don’t actually care about privacy” from overly confident white guys in tech.
Rampant Data Broker Sale Of Pregnancy Data Gets Fresh Scrutiny Post Roe
Data Privacy Matters: Facebook Expands Encryption Just After Facebook Messages (Obtained Via Search Warrant) Used To Charge Teen For Abortion
Fri, Aug 12th 2022 12:09pm – Mike Masnick
In the wake of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, there has been plenty of attention paid to the kinds of data that companies keep on us, and how they could be exposed, including to law enforcement. Many internet companies seemed somewhat taken by surprise regarding all of this, which is a bit ridiculous, given that (1) they had plenty of time to prepare for this sort of thing, and (2) it’s not like plenty of us haven’t been warning companies about the privacy problems of having too much data.
Data Privacy Matters: Facebook Expands Encryption Just After Facebook Messages (Obtained Via Search Warrant) Used To Charge Teen For Abortion
Big Tech Keeps Withholding Data that Could Help Solve Assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco
RIO DE JANEIRO – Four-plus years after the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco (38), social media giant Facebook has yet to provide investigators with the full stored data of Internet users who visited her social media account prior to the double homicide.
Big Tech Keeps Withholding Data that Could Help Solve Assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco
Grift Capitalism: The GOP’s Brilliant Strategy For Ripping Off Ordinary Americans
New York schools are ignoring facial recognition ban
In December 2020, New York State schools suspended for 18 months the use of facial recognition technology, to study any possible harmful effects on children’s privacy.
New York schools are ignoring facial recognition ban
Society of Spectacle
The televised spectacle of the January 6th hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. The hearings are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class.
Society of Spectacle
H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
My personal notes:
Republicans will blame gun violence on mental health, psychiatric medications, or violent video games, yet they aren’t willing to support solutions, such as affordable healthcare, affordable prescriptions, or defund the military industrial complex! As for Democrats, all they will offer is banning guns!
Speaking of mental health, and psychiatric medications, Peace Labor May made some good points in her most recent YouTube video (you may have to turn your volume up).
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
In light of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’m re-posting a link to my left argument for gun rights from 2017. (One among many. See links at end of article)
Some points covered in the article:
The class concept of the state. It’s not a neutral arbiter to be trusted with a monopoly of armed power. “The concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other.”
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. Whatever strict gun-control regime is instituted, ruling-class families and institutions will still have all the guns they want.
But what about horrible mass shootings? Recognize that *gun homicides have declined even as gun ownership has increased,*. that mass shootings are a small portion of gun deaths in the US & a lousy index of the social problem of gun violence. But they do grab one’s attention.
For the full argument, go to the article:
The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
(Reprise)
Related (including some random archived links that I noticed were behind paywalls and/or 404):
A Marxist-Leninist response to Gun Control
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