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Analysis: Government’s Vast Lockers Of Data Threaten Basic Individual Freedoms
I’m going to try to tie together strands of information NSA-style and see if a pattern emerges. I will be looking for signs that America’s historic definition and understanding of privacy are being eroded. I will also try to understand if that erosion could fundamentally alter an individual American’s relationship to government power. Read More »
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Barrett Brown, Political Prisoner Of The Information Revolution
If the US government succeeds in criminalising Brown's posting of a hyperlink, the freedom of all internet users is in jeopardy Read More »
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Forced Exposure
The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. What to do? Read More »
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If PRISM Is Good Policy, Why Stop With Terrorism?
Defenders of the program say its effectiveness excuses it -- but they ignore the Fourth Amendment. Read More »
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Living Sick And Dying Young In Rich America
Chronic illness is the new first-world problem. Read More »
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Louis C.K. and the DIY DVD Experiment
The answer to stabilizing content and price is letting artists retain greater control of their work. Read More »
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The NSA-Reform Paradox: Stop Domestic Spying, Get More Security
The nation can survive the occasional terrorist attack, but our freedoms can't survive an invulnerable leader like Keith Alexander operating within inadequate constraints. Read More »
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What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care?
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now. Read More »
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White House Petition On Cellphone Unlocking Receives Over 100,000 Signatures
At 7:37 AM EST on February 21, 2013, a White House petition on cellphone unlocking went over the 100,000 signature threshold on the White House’s “We the People” website. This was the threshold for a White House response. Now they will will wait to hear from the White House. How did we get here and what is cellphone unlocking? Read More »
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Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
Much has changed since the beginning of the free software movement: Most people in advanced countries now own computers — sometimes called “phones” — and use the internet with them. Non-free software still makes the users surrender control over their computing to someone else, but now there is another way to lose it: Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, which means letting someone else’s server do your own computing activities.
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Why We Need More Open Source Medicines
Two thousand five hundred years ago, Hippocrates said “Let food by thy medicine, and let medicine be your food.” The concept of “open source” had not been invented, but Hippocrates was talking about “open source medicines”. Read More »
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“What Indigo Has Learned”… Transparency And Accountability
Over the past couple of years Indigo has developed a sizeable portfolio of partner organisations and funded projects that attempt to increase accountability and transparency in Africa by utilising ICT. We have found this to be hard work indeed! Measuring impact and selecting projects that will challenge those in power in a constructive yet meaningful way is difficult. As we have reviewed our work however it has become obvious to us that there are some areas in which our money can make a real difference. Read More »
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