privacy

"Banks said she was investigated for letting her middle child go to school with a bad haircut he’d given himself. The haircut, Banks said she was told by an investigator, could amount to emotional abuse." Full article at Huffington Post here. Dori www.LittleLibertarians.com

For 45 years, generations of 2-year-olds have been meeting each week in a local church to play through the Capitol Hill Cooperative Play School. Some D.C. government officials now are trying to regulate the program.... Full article here. Dori www.LittleLibertarians.com

Epic is a private browser that's fast, simple and actually works. When you're using Epic with our encrypted proxy on, your data is encrypted and hidden from the government, from your ISP, from Google, from your employer, and from hundreds of data collectors. On close of Epic, there's no easily...

Check 'er out, guys: https://tox.chat/ I'm not interested in instant messaging, myself, but for those of you into it or needing it, this could be a great solution! Full of all the privacy goodness you need.

Mcafee just had a great interview demystifying the spin with the DOJ and Apple situation on CNBC. http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000495078 Unfortunately Trump, Rubio, and others like Tom Cotton and Dianne Feinstein have been vocal in support of the back door.

First off he is a Liberal Rockefeller Republican turned Democrat: https://twitter.com/LincolnChafee He isn't a Libertarian, however he is closest to Ron Paul on foreign policy. He supports the blowback theory on terrorism like Ron Paul. He also is polling badly and needs funds and I think he...

Whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden lauded Apple for enabling measures like default full-disk encryption in iOS 8, in a rare editorial published on Friday. Snowden noted that some progress has been made in reversing mass surveillance not just politically...

Konni Burton March 13 at 6:09pm · Today was the last day to file bills in the Texas legislature! We ended on a high note with our last bill receiving seventeen joint authors! SB 1864 protects our personal liberties by providing that a warrant must be issued before police can search your...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/02/28/1316203/nsa-spying-wins-another-rubber-stamp http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/nsa-spying-wins-another-rubber-stamp-20150227

I've seen reports that new NSA 'leaks' are forthcoming. http://www.businessinsider.com/r-russian-researchers-expose-breakthrough-us-spying-program-2015-2

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/01/20/1540241/fbi-seeks-to-legally-hack-you-if-youre-connected-to-tor-or-a-vpn Just because they say it is Legal does not make it Legal. More Legal BS. Related: Scientific Study: Interrogators Can Trick People into Falsely Believing They Committed Crimes...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/16/tech_companies_and_advertisers_seeking_access_to_connected_car_data_says_bmw/ And if you tend to drive 'too fast', there will be a Pill for that too. Marketing is not an attempt to fill the needs of people and turn over a profit, Marketing is about...

Continued - New Illinois cyber bully law lets teachers access students' social media

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Trying to Hack Your iPhone Did you guess correctly? Are you shocked? Me neither.

Highlights: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/

You mean a Federally funded study found that there is no effective alternative to federal en masse collection of data from the American Public? No you don't say! :eek: h ttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/us/politics/report-finds-no-alternative-to-bulk-collection-of-phone-data.html?_r=0

http://benswann.com/cispa-2015-draft-text-emerges-online-dem-rep-cites-sony-hack-as-rationale-for-reintroducing-bill/ Maryland Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger reintroduced the controversial cyber-security bill CISPA last Friday and cited a recent incident in which hackers targeted...

Amash: Most “Egregious” Violation of Privacy Law Just Passed By Congress With next to no debate, Congress may have quietly passed a bill authorizing the executive branch access to nearly all communications by Americans. Congressman Justin Amash attempted to rally members of Congress against...

So, I was casually strolling through Facebook, when I came upon this. Sirens firing off all around, I read a bit on. HR 4681 is the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2015, which has now been passed in both the Senate and House, and now only awaits the Presidents signature. Here were the...