national security state – American Delusions

Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible

November 17, 2016 Comments Off

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 -->>

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, and so on. Unfortunately almost all of this discussion is taking place without a useful --->> read more -->>

Naomi Wolf’s The End of America – the movie

May 27, 2011 Comments Off

The End of America – a film by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern Here is a summary of the ten steps discussed and illustrated by Ms. Wolf in the movie. 10 STEPS THAT CLOSE AN OPEN SOCIETY 1. invoke an internal and external threat People who are afraid are willing --->> read more -->>

Yottabytes and the National Security State

October 17, 2009 Comments Off

The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database” that reviews the new book by Mathew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency . I have gotten in line at my local library to read --->> read more -->>