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Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible

November 17, 2016 Comments Off on Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible
In the current moment much of the concern about privacy online and otherwise has been overwhelmed by Trump, inequality, racism and other matters. The NSA and other spies, government and corporate, are not taking a vacation.  I wrote earlier about this in  “The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can --->> read more -->>
borrowed from Slate.com
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FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges

July 11, 2013 Comments Off on FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges
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. 3657 Share this:TweetEmailLike this:Like Loading...
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The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata

July 9, 2013 Comments Off on The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata
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”. As I (and many others) have pointed out earlier, this is complete nonsense.  3640 Share --->> read more -->>

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