Put Facebook & Co. in its place! (tags)
There has been growing concern in civil society and among policymakers that these practices conflict with users' right to privacy, enable manipulation and disinformation campaigns, and ultimately undermine the principle of a public sphere subject to democratic rules.
Unconstitutional Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (tags)
police state
CISA: Another Police State Law Obama Wants Passed (tags)
police state
Appeals Court Strikes Down Bulk NSA Phone Spying (tags)
NSA
Obama
Obama's War on Net Neutrality (tags)
police state
VIDEO: James Bramford on NSA Spying and Edward Snowden (tags)
Investigative reporter James Bamford is the author of "The Puzzle Palace," the first book published about the NSA. He later authored two more: "Body of Secrets" and "The Shadow Factory." Mr. Bamford has also written and co-produced a documentary on the NSA...
Reid Derails Fast Track (tags)
trade
International Data Privacy Day (tags)
privacy
Mass Surveillance Called Illegal (tags)
NSA
police state
NSA's Fake War on Terror (tags)
NSA
Rand Paul v. NSA Spying (tags)
NSA
NSA Mass Monitoring Cell Phone Calls Globally (tags)
NSA
Obama Encourages Spying on World Leaders (tags)
Obama
NSA
Obama Spurns NSA Spying Reform (tags)
police state
NSA Spying: Worse Than You Think (tags)
police state
XKeyscore: Instrument of Mass Surveillance (tags)
police state
America: Super-Bully Nation (tags)
America
Lawlessness Is Official US Policy (tags)
police state
Hands Off Snowden Campaign (tags)
Hands Off Snowden Campaign
Unconstitutional US Data-Mining (tags)
police state
Obama's War on Free Expression (tags)
police state
Supreme Court Authorizes Lawless Wiretapping (tags)
tyranny
tyranny
Lawless Domestic Spying (tags)
police state
Stealth Trade Agreement Secret Negotiations (tags)
police state
Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans (tags)
police state
ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA (tags)
Internet freedom
Richard Silverstein: exposed (tags)
Notorious hate mongering Richard Silverstein is exposed as a fraud and a chlarletan
Illegal FBI Spying on Community Groups (tags)
police state
Internet Freedom Threatened (tags)
Internet
Internet Censorship Bill Introduced (tags)
censorship
Lawless FBI Intelligence Gathering Practices (tags)
lawlessness
Shield Act Targets First Amendment Freedoms (tags)
police state tactics
BTL:U.S. Reacts to WikiLeaks with Calls to Imprison or Kill Founder Julian Assange (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES - A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics.
Net Neutrality Threatened (Part II) (tags)
Net Neutrality threatened
BTL:Obama Seeks Back Door Key to Spy on All Internet Communication (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
New Internet Censorship Bill Introduced (tags)
New censorship attempt
Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet (tags)
Internet threatened
Patriot Act still unconstitutional (tags)
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize three expiring provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. While the bill they passed allegedly strengthened civil liberties in reality, the Committee failed to make any meaningful improvements to the Patriot provisions that violate citizen’s basic rights
BTL:Congress has Opportunity to Revise Patriot Act and Restore Civil Liberties Protections (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
BTL:Lawsuit Aims to Shine Light on Bush Era Illegal Covert Action (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Where Is LA’s ‘Secret Room’? (tags)
In 2005 the Electronic Frontier Foundation exposed the existence of a secret NSA spy room monitoring Internet activities in an AT&T facility in San Francsico. The EFF also found there was a Secret Room in LA. But where is it?
Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws (tags)
Internet and personal freedoms threatened
Patriot Act unconstitutional (tags)
The act in its current form gives sweeping search and surveillance to domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence agencies and eliminates checks and balances which had been the difference between the free world and the suppressed.
Obama’s DOJ follows lead of Bush regime again: It asks court to cover-up NSA surveillance (tags)
On February 25th, Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) again went to bat in court on behalf of the police state begun under the Bush regime by arguing in favor of the legality of the telecom immunity provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill passed by Congress last summer. Under the amended FISA law, courts are required to dismiss a wiretapping suit against a telecommunications company if the Attorney General (AG) explains the firm's role in a confidential statement presented to the court. In the statement, the AG would affirm that the firm either had no role in the wiretapping or that it participated based on assurances that the executive branch had approved the eavesdropping to protect the nation from terrorism.
BTL:Replace Wall Street's Phantom Wealth with Main Street's Real Wealth (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
BTL:Senate Filibuster Delays Vote on Telecommunications Firms' Immunity in... (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
BTL:Congress Battles over Government Wiretap Bill (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
BTL:Democrats Surrender to Fear by... (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
General Strike! 9/11/07! No Work! No School! No Commerce! (tags)
This September Eleventh: No Work, No School, No Commerce! Hit The Streets!
U.S. quietly rated travelers for terrorism potential (tags)
For the past four years, without public notice, federal agents have assigned millions of Americans and other international travelers computer-generated scores assessing the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals.
Hacker cracks iPod, iTunes restrictions (tags)
A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
BTL:Bush Warrantless Domestic Spying Program Ruled Unconstitutional (tags)
Interview with Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
HERES WHAT DID IT: (1) That the vendor post a bond or letter of credit to cover damages resulting from defects in the voting system. Damages shall include, among other items, any costs of conducting a new election attributable to those defects.
SEC,Chris Cox:W Bush Cedes Presidential Stock Fraud Ops To DNI John Negroponte.Why ? (tags)
Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules Now, the White House's top spymaster can cite national security to exempt businesses from reporting requirements President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye. - Dawn Kopecki , BusinessWeek
BTL:NSA Domestic Surveillance Tests Constitution (tags)
Interview with Chrisopher Pyle, former intelligence officer and professor constitutional law, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Lawsuit details AT&T cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans (tags)
A lawsuit underway in a US district court in San Francisco charges telecommunications giant AT&T with violating the privacy of its customers by handing over massive amounts of data to the government. The class action lawsuit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of AT&T customers, is based on documents provided by a former AT&T employee that detail the company’s participation in the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless spying program that was first revealed late last year.
Kembrew McLeod, Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport (tags)
Interview with Kembrew McLeod about Copyright Criminals, a documentary about the sampling culture.
After spy scandal, U.S. plans “massive” data sweep (tags)
"The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged...” The New York Times once said.
US plans massive data sweep (tags)
Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?
New PATRIOT Act Legislation Destroys Liberty (tags)
The Fourth Amendment reads as follows: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Bush Regime Maintains Power Through Electoral Fraud (tags)
Whither Democracy In The United States?
Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat (tags)
Indymedia sites knocked offline- from yahoo.com
DETAILS OF FBI SEIZURE OF GLOBAL IMC SERVER. (tags)
Here are 3 articles posted by Truthout on the Oct. 7 raid, in the UK , on the servers of Global Indy Media and several local IMC's, apparently instigated by one IMC's posting of a photo of an undercover agent in Europe.
Urgent Alert: California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines (tags)
Urgent Alert: California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines Contributed by Electronic Frontier Foundation On April 21 & 22, the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel will decide whether to decertify paperless electronic voting systems before the November election. The call for decertification arose in California following the disenfranchisement of thousands of California voters during the March 2, 2004, election due to technical problems with electronic voting systems. In Alameda County, problems with Diebold smart card encoders affected one-fourth of the County's polling places; in San Diego County, encoder problems affected nearly 40 percent of the County's polling places. In Orange County, thousands of voters were given the wrong electronic ballots; many were unable to cast votes in contests for which they were eligible, while others were allowed to vote in districts in which they did not reside.
An interview with Sherman Austin's Mother in G-spot (tags)
An interview with Sherman Austin's Mother, Jennifer Martin Ruggiero
TECHSPLOITATION: Die, Diebold, Die! (tags)
Diebold memos reveal the company has changed its software without getting it recertified -- which is a violation of federal and state laws -- and then used in California's recall election that installed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor.
Los Angeles Indymedia Center Interviews Sherman Austin (tags)
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pbnberkeley news donation request - 12/20/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR!
come here talk about the problems with intellectual property and copyright! (tags)
Talk at UCLA about copyright and intellectual property
Narco News Offers Journalism Scholarship (tags)
The Narco News website is offering a journalism class to several aspiring journalists.
Can the Digital Hub Survive Hollywood? (tags)
If you can ignore some of the Mac boosterism, there's some serious info about Hollywood and their goals of preventing people from copying their digital data.
Open Letter To Committee to Protect Journalists (tags)
I write to inform you of specific acts and immediate threats against journalists in Venezuela, and to ask you 12 questions, as a journalist, about your organization's previous statements regarding press freedom issues in that country. I hope that your organization will take immediate action to defend these journalists at risk, and that you will offer full and honest answers to the 12 questions.
SUMMARY OF EFF DISCUSSION WITH SF-IMC (tags)
Notes from a meeting between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Indymedia. Lots of good information about your civil rights online.
Oakland FBI Contacts Indymedia Volunteer (tags)
Information about FBI contact with Indymedia volunteer today, Nov 2 2001
GOVERNMENT DROPS COURT ORDER AS IMC PREPARES LEGAL CHALLENGE (tags)
The case drew immediate interest from some of the nation's top first amendment advocacy organizations: the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Admonishes Renegade Pacifica Board's Suppression (tags)
Source: EFF The below open letter to the Pacifica Foundation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is in regard to Pacifica Management's threats against listener web sites that are critical of the Pacifica Board's actions in hijacking the Foundation from it's Mission.