Posted on 05/14/2025 5:08:18 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
Privacy is essential to individual liberty.
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Stop filming us everywhere we go, scanning our license plates, tracking our cell phones, and monitoring our bank accounts.
Government needs to stop spying on Americans and ban private companies from doing the same thing.
“Government needs to stop spying on Americans and ban private companies from doing the same thing.”
Tell me about it, I cannot even buy a quart of milk without my plate (and vehicle type) being photographed and entered into a database.
i’ll forever remember her easy dominance, bestride a group of feckless, pygmy gop senators yipping at her heels.
as one of the greatest men ever to live said:
‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.’
Muslims blew up the Twin Towers and all I got was a lousy Patriot Act.
They won twice.
I think you are referring to Tulsi’s confirmation hearing. A little girl power was going on there, with Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa sponsoring her. So, how could Senator Sue Collins of Maine oppose her? Collins was (and is) sometimes independent-minded. And, locking-up her support insured Tulsi would be reported positively out of committee and confirmed by the Senate. Tulsi’s sense of the situation, and her confidence, was palpable. Trump has a strong DNI who also is quite aware of her role as an advisor to the President and to the Congress.
If you have EZPass, it conceivably shows your (transponder) position at all times if there is a receiver nearby. If you don’t have it but drive on any toll road or bridge, your car and plate are automatically date/time stamp photographed for the Tolls By Mail program.
” Trust, but verify “
Tulsi has been laboring under the weight of Biden holdover interpretations. Her daily or weekly intelligence report about Ukraine, the last one made public, repeated casualty numbers that were identical to those from Biden.
She just eliminated a lot of those a few days ago. I expect changes reported to Congress and the president upcoming. That had already begun but to not much extent. And this was always going to be exactly like this. Bureaucracies are hard to root out. They take time.
There are thousands of companies selling and sharing our data. US and foreign governments and advertisers buy this data. Much of it is posted for free on the internet. The government also publishes info online such as court records.
You can ask data miners to delete your data, but it is whack-a-mole, and sometimes they refuse or require you to provide documentation such as your scanned driver’s license.
To comply with U.S. anti-money-laundering laws, online brokers require you to provide selfie videos, which are validated by third-party data-miners, adding your biometric data to your electronic dossiers. The online brokers require this for Americans but not foreigners. The U.S. “anti-money-laundering” laws are set up by the biggest money launderers in the world to do surveillance on regular Americans.
We live in a surveillance state.
I do not recall any politician ever mentioning privacy as a right to be protected (unless it was a euphemism for abortion.)
If this is what Tulsi Gabbard is talking about, this is very good news.
It used to be a big thing for rand Paul, but he's done nothing.
Every cell phone is a spy with the information going to corporations, governments, crime syndicates etc etc etc.
Snowden already proved that governments trade data to avoid accountability.
Government A spies on citizens in Country B.
Government B spies on citizens in Country A.
One mouse click and they can trade data and still maintain deniability to their own citizens.
I totally agree with Tulsi’s views—but I am afraid it is like people complaining about airplanes flying over their property when they live next door to an airport.
Computing device users overwhelmingly choose convenience over security. Users want Privacy and Security -type Internet applications, but then demand that the privacy and security be reduced to the point of . . .
They might as well be using Google’s chatterboxes: Google’s G-mail, Chrome, and sign-in at YouTube.
A lot of people click on links in e-mail messages - never double-checking if the links are legit.
Who is Tulso? Is that Tulsi’s brother?
I blame all my typos on autocorrect these days.
From what I saw, she actually said and promised nothing.
Hard to imagine she would/could undo these past decades of surveillance, leading to universal, realtime surveillance and analysis at this point.
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