The Illinois State Senate has introduced bill 1614 entitled “Internet Posting Removal Act” that “provides that a web site administrator shall, upon request, remove any posted comments posted by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.”
In Washington State, the federally-funded predictive cloud-based software PREDPOL will be assisting police departments in Tacoma and Seattle. PREDPOL utilizes mathematical algorithms based on five years of sociological data on citizens such as criminal behavior and records
The National Security Agency has rejected a request to tell the public if they are violating our privacy, because it would violate our privacy to do so…
You know, kinda like your mom using your eyeball scan to find you on one of the cameras in the yard…
‘People are filmed on the street every day by businesses and others and don’t even know about it. Our agency is letting them know it’s happening and we are not trying to hide the fact that an area is under surveillance.'”
In other words: “We know spying without a warrant is wrong but hey, everyone else is doing it…
