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Ben Franklin famously wrote, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” What would he say now? Benjamin Franklin must be turning over in his … Read more
We all enjoy our privacy, and getting away… but the gov’t says it needs to keep a watchful eye. The president tried to reassure citizens… but somehow people are still not comfortable. The fact that … Read more
There’s big money to be made by corporatizing America’s assets and functions By Ralph Nader Privacy is a sacred word to many Americans, as demonstrated by the recent uproar over the brazen invasion of it … Read more
The Patriot Act: It’s b-a-a-a-ck! It’s back. The Patriot Act — that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness … Read more
Recently Malte Spitz, a German Green Party politician, sued Deutsche Telecom (parent of T-Mobile in the USA) requiring that they hand over six months of his phone data. Because he wasn’t in the USA, he actually won. He turned the in…