Posted on 12/09/2013 8:19:22 AM PST by dennisw
You'll be a perfect little Democrat serf........................
Hate to break it to you, but that makes you a liberal/democrap.
How about AT&T and Verizon?
We heard of this union long before Snowden. These companies didn’t do anything 3 years or so ago and they’ll not do anything in the future. It’s nothing but a feel good piece.
ENOUGH ALREADY!
I’ll turn it back on! Sheesh...
...hope this tinfoil hat works as well at they say it does on the interwebz...
Here's the issue: many suspect that the NSA has been directly tapping into the Internet backbone lines owned by AT&T, Level 3, Sprint and Verizon. If these companies I mentioned aren't speaking up to curb the NSA's activities, that original "open letter" is all for naught.
You got that right!!! Thanks for that info. I know I read the NSA has a few switches installed at certain key places. These switches divert (I guess mirror) the flow over an internet backbone. I remember ATT and Verizon being mentioned where these switches were installed.
This mirrored flow gets sent to NSA in Maryland and Utah. Seems that Ft Meade does the analysis while Utah NSA is mostly for storage. Archived for immediate retrieval if necessary
Yes, many of these companies collect user data. But you can simply refuse to be one of their users. It's private enterprise and business, as long as they inform you, have the right to contractually keep your data.
It is a good start because it brings to light that there has been way too much of this type of data collecting going on, both from the government and the businesses.
The businesses now know that this is an important issue and I think they will be forced, by customer complaints or market forces in which other competing companies promise not to collect data, into not collecting such data.
Now as far as the government goes, I absolutely think the whole law is a violation of the US Constitution—the government does not nor should not have the power to collect this type of data on Americans.
Did you know that part of the surveillance laws was that the tech Company COULD NOT tell their customers that the government was forcing them to pass on private user data?
In any case, the financial, legal and moral push-back against personal data collection needs to be waged, and this is a rightward step in that direction. Far more needs to be done, no more sweeping under the rug, etc., etc.
I hope their influence will get this monstrosity chopped up and discarded
This is why those howling that Snowden is a 'traitor' are so wide of the mark IMO. I really don't give a damn what motivated him. The bottom line is that what he's done has highlighted the intrusiveness of our feral government, and has prompted people to finally start pushing back against it. None of these companies give a damn about our privacy, and most have, in the past worked directly to undermine it. However, their customers now know about it and many aren't exactly happy. THe only way to get anything to change at a national level is to have some of these high profile companies to start pushing back, as they are doing (at least publicly). The government doesn't listen to the people, but it does listen to big money.
I remember seeing Zuckerfuk on live TV denying any cooperation with the NSA then a week later we find that Facebook was in total cahoots with the NSA all along.
F Zuck and all these other traitors.
Somehow I tend to believe that the NSA’s actions is in some way costing these conglomerates MONEY or they would not be taking this stance.
Absolutely. Early reports indicate that this fiasco is costing the US tech sector tens of billions of dollars (here's one estimate saying $35 billion over the next three years, and that's far from the most pessimistic figures I've seen.
Colorado Town to Vote on Making it Legal to Hunt Drones
Ten years ago, if you said in 2013 that we’d be having a debate on how both privately and government owned unmanned aerial drones would be a part of our lives, many people would probably call you crazy.
However, here we are, in 2013, debating about unmanned aerial vehicles and how they’ll be used in daily life.
We have everything from federal government attack drones to law enforcement surveillance drones to recreational, hobby drones to drones designed to monitor and harass hunters.
Well, one small Colorado town is taking control of the debate in an interesting way.
The town of Deer Trail is set to vote on a local ordinance which would make it legal to shoot down unmanned drones that invade private property airspace.
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/colorado-town-to-vote-on-making-it-legal-to-hunt-drones/
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