Tag: Big Brother
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Privacy? Never Heard of It: The Digital Age’s Greatest Vanishing Act
Privacy in the digital age? More like a vanishing magic trick. Explore the chaotic, tech-driven circus where your personal space disappears faster than Houdini.
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Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside a “CMU”
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Prisons challenging the legality of two…
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Facebook getting your friends to data mine for them.
facebook engancha (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Facebook has added a feature so that you can ask friends whether or not they are in a relationship. It sounds like a way to help the somewhat creepy, but as always advertising is likely the key.The new feature applies to any field in a user’s profile that they’ve not…
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Orwell a few decades off.
Our freedoms are being slowly eroded by laws we know little to nothing about.