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Check out the @RadReference anti-surveillance zine
Hey, check out the new, hot-off-the-presses Radical Reference anti-surveillance zine! It’s chock full of information to keep individuals and libraries safe in our ubiquitous surveillance world. It’s under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license so feel free to print and hand them out in your library. Ever since the events of September 11th, something […]
Your chance to tell White House your thoughts on big data, privacy and surveillance
Here’s an opportunity to let the White House know your opinions on data gathering, transforming technologies and privacy issues. ============== From: The White House [info@messages.whitehouse.gov] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 2:00 PM Subject: The President’s review of big data and privacy Friday, March 21, 2014 The President’s review of big data and privacy In January, President […]
Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board releases report on NSA bulk telephone records program
The Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has released its report on the National Security Agency’s program of collecting bulk phone call records. Thirteen U.S. Senators asked the PCLOB to investigate two NSA programs (referred to as section 215 and 702 of the USA PATRIOT Act) and the operation of the FISA court. The […]
Transcript & Video of POTUS NSA Reform Speech
via Washington Post [Reproduced in its entirety] January 17, 2013 PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much, please have a seat. At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee, born out of the Sons of Liberty, was established in Boston. And the group’s members included Paul Revere. […]
Minnesota librarians push to curb NSA snooping
“With mass collection of private data, whether library records or cellphone activity, the decision on privacy has been taken away from the individual. The potential harm comes from not knowing what has been collected or how it will be used.” Great quote from Kirsten Clark, our own Regional FDLP Librarian at the University of Minnesota. […]
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