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Sitting Member of Congress. twitter.com/RepThomasMassi…
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The last time we heard a White House considering a pardon was 2016, when the very same Attorney General who once charged me conceded that, on balance, my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance had been "a public service." nypost.com/2020/08/13/tru…
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PERMANENT RECORD has just been adapted for young readers and schools. It took a lot of work, but making the systems that will control and influence our children's entire lives understandable to them is something I feel very important. Order link: read.macmillan.com/mcpg/permanent…
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You too can get access to the "100s of petabytes of data"—perfect records of our private lives—that the NSA routinely ingests about people who have never been suspected of any wrongdoing. They'll tell you this is legal. They'll say it's constitutional.
But you'll know better. twitter.com/NSAGov/status/…
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This is the story of your future, told today. twitter.com/kashhill/statu…
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This. Sure, taking a phone to a protest is unsafe, but *going* to a protest is unsafe, because the problem isn't your phone—it is the decades of authoritarianism that made it a weapon.
Your phone will be safe when everyone is safe, and that won't come without taking some risk. twitter.com/sarahjeong/sta…
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We're live in a half hour. twitter.com/MijenteComite/…
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If you're in media, you should be following this. The number of violent attacks on journalists by police we've seen during the #GeorgeFloyd protests is unprecedented in the history of our work. twitter.com/uspresstracker…
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If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.
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En français: interhop.org/le-gouvernemen… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Il semble que le gouvernement français capitulera face au cartel du Cloud et fournira les informations médicales du pays directement à Microsoft. Pourquoi? C'est juste plus simple. interhop.org/le-gouvernemen…
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Wer hätte es wissen können? twitter.com/BVerfG/status/…
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Here's a link to the full paper: aclu.org/report/aclu-wh… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Apple and Google intend to push pandemic trackers into most of the world's smartphones. In response, @ACLU just published a whitepaper listing bottom-line principles phone-based contact-tracing systems must follow to comply with basic rights. Summary: aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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Governments around the world are exploiting the pandemic to monitor us like never before. I discuss it with @ggreenwald here on SYSTEM UPDATE: youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7exb…
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As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Here's how it happens: youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjn…
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We need to know whether our hospitals are safe. If we can't even prevent retaliation against healthcare workers for warning of hazards during a pandemic, "whistleblower protection" is a cruel myth. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A Seattle hospital just fired a 17-year ER doctor for exposing its refusal to implement crucial nCoV safety measures, risking community health. "Several" staffers just tested positive for #COVID19, but the hospital denies liability, claiming coincidence.
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…
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This is the first time in a while I've felt like buying bitcoin. That drop was too much panic and too little reason.
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The government cast Manning into a dungeon for resisting a scheme to make publishers of news subject to the Espionage Act. They offered to let her out in exchange for collaboration, but she chose her principles instead.
That is moral strength.
@xychelsea twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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Remember, the EARN IT act is only the latest attack in the government's very long war on encryption. Switzerland's most sensitive communications-security company was secretly run by the CIA. There is nothing these people won't do to stamp out the idea of a private conversation. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The government is attempting to exploit anger at tech companies to pass a law that intentionally undermines digital security (eff.org/deeplinks/2020…), and censors speech. That such a law is even being considered by Congress is a national disgrace.
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