John McAfee talks on RT America about the insecurity of the modern network and the vulnerabilities we all share. If you are connecting your mobile device to public wifi, you can forget about having any privacy.
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“This is not a partisan issue, it’s not about being right or left politically. It’s about a basic, fundamental constitutional right,” says Rev. Rick Hoyt.
Rev. Hoyt is leading his church, the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, and 19 other organizations to sue the NSA for first, fourth, and fifth amendment violations resulting from electronic surveillance. Rev. Hoyt sat down with ReasonTV’s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss the lawsuit and why his church has a history of getting involved in political matters of this nature.
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Congress came close to cutting off funding for the NSA as the evidence mounts of the agency’s massive spying operations — conducted seemingly with few checks and balances, and little regard for preserving citizens’ rights to privacy. Pundit Dick Morris is encouraged that Congress is finally waking up and possibly mobilizing to reign in the rogue agency.
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On July 4th, hundreds of protesters gathered on Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles as part of a nationwide rally organized by Restore the Fourth, a self-described non-partisan movement demanding an end to the “unconstitutional surveillance methods employed by the US government.”
“We’ve talked to libertarian groups, we’ve talked to Republican and Tea Party groups, we’ve talked to Democratic groups,” explained rally organizer Xander Snyder. “If you are an American and you believe in the backbone of America – which is The Constitution – then you believe in what the Fourth Amendment has to stand for.”
ReasonTV was on the scene to cover the rally and talk with participants about their concerns.
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DNA extracted from cigarette butts and bubble gum found on the streets of Brooklyn is being used by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg to create realistic portraits of anonymous New Yorkers. The artist says her project is designed to spark debate about the use – or potential misuse – of DNA profiling in society. Ben Gruber reports for Reuters.
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“If there’s one thing that [the National Security Agency (NSA)] values, it’s secrecy,” says Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Mark Rumold. “They’ve been allowed to operate in ways that aren’t always consistent with the public’s understanding of the laws and the Constitution or even other parts of the executive branch’s interpretation of the laws.”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit over a ruling by the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). That ruling found parts of a classified Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance program to be in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The court’s decision only became public after a letter from the NSA to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) mentioned it.
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If President Obama meeting with an independent board dedicated to protecting Americans’ privacy and civil liberties today makes you feel better about the ever-expanding NSA scandal, wake up and smell the public relations. The president has been insisting there has been plenty of government oversight and reassuring the public the FISA court is transparent (the latter being such an obvious lie), and it’s almost like every time Obama or someone else in his administration says something, new information comes out to contradict it. Obama’s meeting with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board today is notable for two reasons: 1) we now know there is such a thing as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and 2) before today, the number of times Obama had met with this board is zero. Zilch. None.
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Some of the world’s biggest internet firms — Google, Facebook and Skype — are under pressure to explain just how far they co-operated with intelligence agencies to access your personal information. Here’s a report from Great Britain’s Channel 4. Criticism of the US-based tech firms appears to be strongest in Europe.
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Pundit Dick Morris says the threat of terrorism is too great to dismantle the NSA’s spying operations, but he also believes the agency has pushed the outer limits on what’s acceptable, so more checks and balances should be instituted to protect citizens’ privacy rights. One possibility: Appointment of an advocate who could independently review the agency’s operations and file court charges if agency employees or contractors violate laws or misuse the data they collect.
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