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Real-time big data in government: Big data or Big Brother? 14 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
Our challenge is distinguishing between data collected for protection and data collection that violates our privacy, all while respecting the very core of our Constitution. By David Gewirtz for ZDNet...
PBS News Hour Show...NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst... 2 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
William Binney and Russell Tice were working for the National Security Agency as analysts when they learned about its wiretapping program -- the controversial post-9/11 program in which the NSA collec...
NPR's radio series on Big Data... Big Brother and the NWO... 2 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
Public-radio network NPR has just broadcast a 2-part series about Big Data on its Morning Edition program. For anyone with 10 minutes to spare, it's a great overview of the impact of Big Data and the ...
MOMENTUM BUILDS AGAINST N.S.A. SURVEILLANCE 29 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
New York Times July 28, 2013 by Jonathan Weisman WASHINGTON — The movement to crack down on government surveillance started with an odd couple from Michigan, Representatives Justin Amash, a young lib...
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)...The movie... 27 Jul 2013 | 08:10 am
Filmed with the stunning immediacy of unfolding record, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks information the development of Julian Assange’s controvers...
Oath Keepers Places Pro-Snowden Signs in DC Area, Encouraging More Whistle-blowers... 27 Jul 2013 | 07:45 am
ARLINGTON, Va., July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Oath Keepers has placed three back-lit signs on the subway platform in the Washington Metro Pentagon Station, group founder Stewart Rhodes announced today...
Political targeting by the IRS is bigger, more complex than you think... 27 Jul 2013 | 07:15 am
A great book will be written about this. The IRS targeting of unorthodox Tea Party groups, pro-family groups, and others while Obama was president is going to only become a bigger scandal, and every d...
Chief Justice John Roberts: The hidden hand behind the surveillance state... 27 Jul 2013 | 06:51 am
John Roberts has immense, if quiet, influence over the nation's spying programs. The secret court that facilitates Obama's spying program is stacked with the justice's picks Defenders of the Nati...
POLICE STATE: Cloud Computing to Destroy Internet Freedom! 27 Jul 2013 | 06:07 am
Police State Enabled by Cloud Computing and Big Data? Is cloud computing enabling corporations and Governments to edge us towards a Police State?. Interesting cloud information video which claims ...
Big Brother meets Big Data: Governments start scrutinizing credit card records 27 Jul 2013 | 05:18 am
Bob Sullivan NBC News Oct. 19, 2012 at 5:55 AM ET The economy is so bad in Argentina that the government recently said it would start taxing overseas credit card purchases. It also demanded th...
