'Tag Archives: 'internet privacy''

U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality

U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality

Gwen Hinze Electronic Frontier Foundation U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality – State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade [...]

TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week

TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week

Maira Sutton Electronic Frontier Foundation The U.S. content industry will try anything to preserve its profit margin and power over the creative content market at the expense of the Internet. They will use any tactic that [...]

New York judge rules an IP address is not a person

New York judge rules an IP address is not a person

RTAmerica A judge in New York has ruled that Internet searches and downloads and other activities done on your personal computer do not mean you are the person behind them. This ruling could cause a problem [...]

FBI asks Internet companies help its proposed wiretapping of social networking sites

FBI asks Internet companies help its proposed wiretapping of social networking sites

ANI The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked Internet companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, to not oppose its proposal requiring them to build backdoors for government surveillance. FBI officials, in meetings with industry representatives, [...]

Borg Tea Party Voted to Kill Fourth

Borg Tea Party Voted to Kill Fourth

Kurt Nimmo Infowars Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus voted overwhelmingly to sell the Constitution down the river. Last week’s passage of CISPA in the House was helped along by the so-called House Tea Party Caucus. [...]

Who owns your stuff in the cloud?

Who owns your stuff in the cloud?

Michelle Maltais LA Times As more people look to the cloud for digital storage, such as the recently unveiled Google Drive, the era of being able to mindlessly click “OK” or “Agree” may be over. When [...]

Hands Off the Internet!

Hands Off the Internet!

Ron Paul Paul House A Dear Colleague letter Dear Colleagues: Please join me in opposing the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR 3523), which will create a monstrous coalition of big business and big government [...]

Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spies?

Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spies?

Steven Rosenfeld Alternet Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spies? The Dangerous New Law Before Congress (CISPA) A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass [...]

Ron Paul Slams Internet Control Bill CISPA

Ron Paul Slams Internet Control Bill CISPA

Steve Watson Infowars “Big Brother writ” will allow feds to use corporate resources for “spying on the American people” In the week that lawmakers will vote on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CIPSA), Presidential [...]

Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying — The U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying — The U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Alternet | Democracy Now! NSA whistleblower William Binney believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of [...]

6 Things You Need to Know About the Government’s New Spy Law (CISPA)

6 Things You Need to Know About the Government’s New Spy Law (CISPA)

Scott Lemieux Alternet CISPA would allow information sharing between corporations and the government, and presents serious dangers to individual privacy. Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended [...]

Activists Aim To Crush Internet Censorship Bill

Activists Aim To Crush Internet Censorship Bill

Steve Watson Infowars A coalition of advocacy groups has begun a week of intensive protests against the latest attack on the free and open internet, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The draconian legislation [...]