2013 — American Delusions

FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges

July 11, 2013 Comments Off

The government and the press continue to refer to the FISA Court as a judicial review, a third party oversight of the government’s intrusions on our privacy. This misuse of words and concepts needs correction. --->> read more -->>

The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata

July 9, 2013 Comments Off

With the recent revelations of the NSA vacuum cleaner collecting metadata about every aspect of our lives we have been subjected to calming incantations, “We are only collecting metadata, we aren’t looking at the content”. --->> read more -->>

Wall St – not about investing but fixing the game

July 9, 2013 Comments Off

An article in the NY TImes today reports that NY Attorney General Schneiderman is pursuing various information providers, Thomson Reuters in the immediate case, for their practices of selling market sensitive information preferntially. Those paying --->> read more -->>

James_R._Clapper_Director of National Intelligence

NSA Vacuuming, Meta Data, Mistaken Misleading Metaphors

June 17, 2013 Comments Off

NSA’s gathering of Meta Data Compared to Corporate Use of Information In the current discussions of the government’s wholesale seizure of the meta data of our personal digital lives there is regular comparison to the --->> read more -->>

LAURA POITRAS credit: Ruby Washington/New York Times photographer - borrowed w/o permission

Dangers of the US Security State

June 16, 2013 Comments Off

There are those, in response to the recent revelations of the US government vacuum cleaning our lives through the NSA and other secret programs, who take the line that the innocent have nothing to fear --->> read more -->>

US Vacuum Cleaning Our Privacy – the bigger story

June 8, 2013 Comments Off

There has rightfully been considerable outrage over this week’s revelations that the Federal government has been sucking up information on virtually every aspect of our lives, email, telephones calls, pictures, credit card and banking transactions, --->> read more -->>