Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWelcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to brining you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours. While Trump’s recent comments are still dominating the MSM discussion, to begin today I Read More…
Tag: Privacy
Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights
Though outrage over mass surveillance swept the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, there is little discussion of these invasive practices just four years later. This apathy comes despite former President Barack Obama’s move to expand to information sharing between agencies just days before Trump took office and after the Trump administration signaled its desire to continue Read More…
Your Up-To-Date Guide To Avoiding Internet Censorship & Getting Real Watchdog Journalism
There are lots of good strategies for beating both corporate and government Internet censors and snoops. These range from alternatives to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — to direct subscriptions to authors and pubs — to setting up your own VPN. All are worth the effort. While Google’s Information Age dominance has long been recognized Read More…
Microchipping Humans: First They Traded Freedom for Security, Now It’s Privacy for Convenience
RFID chips are in the news again, this time as employees volunteer for implants — but the chips’ convenience lures more to implants before the impact on rights can be assessed. If a steel truth exists in decades of technological innovation, it rests firmly in the convenience provided society — indeed, while the mother of Read More…
Google Is Quietly Recording Everything You Do
Even though this may not come as a surprise to most of you, it is still something that is happening all around us, all the time, and right under our noses: Google is quietly recording everything we do, from conversations we have over the phone and texts to videos we send and create over webcams and Read More…
The Age Of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about Read More…






