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• On the post: Anonymized Data Really Isn't Anonymous: Vehicle Data Can Easily Be Used To Identify You

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2016 @ 08:57am

  This seems like the place the "right to be forgotten" should be implemented, instead of internet search results. I want these companies to forget me and all my data.

• On the post: If, As Eric Holder Now Admits, Snowden Did 'A Public Service,' Why Does He Still Want Him In Jail?

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 31 May, 2016 @ 12:43pm

  If Snowden every does make it to trial, it would be a perfect case for jury nullification. If the government doesn't care about the public interest and the spirit of the law, the jury shouldn't care about the government's interest or the letter of the law.

• On the post: Why Is Congress Undermining President's Surveillance Oversight Board?

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 19 May, 2016 @ 09:14am

  Looks like we're going to need a constitutional amendment if we want actual oversight implemented. It's really sad that we'd have to go that far.

• On the post: Former FCC Boss Turned Top Cable Lobbyist Says Cable Industry Being Unfairly Attacked, 'No Evidence' Of Consumer Harm

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 19 May, 2016 @ 08:45am

  "... and an utter disdain for the captive consumers the sector serves."
  
  I think you mean: ...and an utter disdain for the captive consumers the sector pillages and plunders.

• On the post: Government Argues That Indefinite Solitary Confinement Perfectly Acceptable Punishment For Failing To Decrypt Devices

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 18 May, 2016 @ 02:10pm

  Ok, ok, I'll unlock the phone.
  Let's see, was this the password? No, maybe this was? ... Last try, hope I get it right.
  Uh, oh. I think I just wiped the phone, sorry about that. Can I go home now?

• On the post: A Dozen Bad Ideas That Were Raised At The Copyright Office's DMCA Roundtables

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 18 May, 2016 @ 09:56am

  "One filmmaker even claimed that he didn't think the law should allow "new media" business models to upend "old media" business models."...
  
  Refreshing for its honesty.

• On the post: Chevron Lobbied For Corporate Sovereignty Rights In TAFTA/TTIP To Act As 'Environmental Deterrent'

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2016 @ 11:01am

  From the FBI's website:
  
  "International terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
  
  Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
  Appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
  Occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S., or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum.*
  
  
  "Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
  
  Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
  Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
  Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
  
  That seems pretty close to the aim of ISDS. Maybe companies bringing ISDS actions should be treated as terrorist organizations.

• On the post: USTR Finally Recognizes That The Internet Matters… And That Censorship, Site Blocking & Link Taxes Are Barriers

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 01:53pm

  Who are you and what have you done with the real USTR?

• On the post: Ignorant Anti-Encryption Law Enforcement Groups Made A Logo And A Hashtag… And It All Backfired

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 11:25am

  Re: Crowdsourced!

  #USSA

• On the post: FOIA Documents Expose Details On TSA's $47,000 Coin Flipping App

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2016 @ 11:58am

  Of course it was $50000. They had to pay for enough licenses for all the iPads. They can't just buy one copy and install it on all their device. That would have to be infringement of some sort, and maybe piracy too.

• On the post: Trump's Incomprehensible 'Cyber' Policy: 'Make Cyber Great Again'

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2016 @ 02:04pm

  Re:

  If Trump is elected, Canada and Mexico will build walls, but to keep Americans from sneaking across the borders, not the other way around.

• On the post: Trump's Incomprehensible 'Cyber' Policy: 'Make Cyber Great Again'

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2016 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Re: His words in print

  It's because he's not a professional politician and isn't trying to trick us with all that coherent talking.

• On the post: AT&T Buying Missouri State Law Ensuring Broadband There Continues To Suck

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 05:08am

  Re: For a very loose definition of 'level'

  I had a somewhat different take on this quote. I'm sure AT&T must have made mistake with their wording. Surely they meant to put it this way:
  
  "We believe that if a governmental entity seeks to deploy or operate a GON [government operated network] in a market that IS WELL served by the private sector, there should be safeguards in place to ensure a 'level playing field,' which is why we expressed support for HB 2078,"

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Third Party Doctrine A Perfectly 'Good Law;' No Warrants Needed To Obtain Cell Location Records

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2016 @ 06:35am

  This just sickens and disgusts me. The default should be that the government has the right to access no information at all. The warrant process IS the exception. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Recording Police Not Protected By The First Amendment

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2016 @ 06:41am

  Maybe I'm missing something here, but I was unaware of any law against recording public servants conducting their duties in public. I know it's an antiquated notion, but I believe the police (and other public officials) shouldn't be able to take action to prevent you from doing something that isn't illegal.

• On the post: Drug Dogs Don't Even Have To Be Right Half The Time To Be Considered 'Reliable' By The Courts

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2016 @ 06:43am

  I have a sock puppet that had completed a training regimen for drug detection, and has a very nice looking certificate indicating as much. It sounds like my sock puppet should be ready to pursue a career in drug detection.

• On the post: CIA Director Freaks Out After Senator Wyden Points Out How The CIA Spied On The Senate

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2016 @ 09:54am

  Brennan: You want answers?
  Wyden: I think I'm entitled to.
  Brennan: You want answers?
  Wyden: I want the truth!
  Brennan: You can't handle the truth!

• On the post: Former DHS Boss Puts University Of California Employees Under Secret Surveillance

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2016 @ 07:17am

  Executive leaders who are unwilling to, or incapable of, ensuring BOTH privacy and security are either unwilling to do their job, or incapable of doing it. Regardless of which, they need to be removed and replaced with a competent individual with the right outlook and priorities.

• On the post: The Cable Industry Is Absolutely Terrified Of Set Top Box Competition

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2016 @ 10:27am

  "... the FCC's plan is "big tech's" attempt to thwart all of the amazing innovation occurring in the cable industry..."
  
  The FCC's plan has been amazingly successful, seeing how the cable industry hasn't innovated in a very long time and shows no sign of doing so in the future either.

• On the post: Algorithm Might Protect Non-Targets Caught In Surveillance, But Only If The Government Cares What Happens To Non-Targets

  

  2068415j ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2016 @ 02:36pm

  "... not if it means using alternate (read: "less effective") investigative methods or techniques."
  
  I think that should be rewritten as follows:
  
  "... not if it means using alternate (read: "more work") investigative methods or techniques."

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