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ACLU, EFF sue DOJ over mobile phone tracking

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency’s tracking of mobile phone users.
Yeah, I know, I’m paranoid.  I made it all up.  I even put up a fake website with the facts […]

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compromise spying immunity bill…

Update: Voted! Passed 293-129. Today the House votes on a new compromise FISA Bill that will make the NSA’s formerly questionable activities—like spying on Americans—legal, and will grant conditional..
It’s ok, go back to watching Americans Idle.  Nothing to see here.  We’ve just gotten the Telcos (Friends of Bush) off the hook for spying.  Oh yeah, […]

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surveillance society

My wife is a big fan of true crime tv shows. If I ever go missing, my body will never be found.
Today the one she was watching covered murders at a Starbucks in D.C. This was surprising, as it wasn’t the coffee that killed the poor employees of the store.
In any case, the […]

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wanna spy on cell phones?

Among other things, one drain on my financial resources (otherwise known as a hobby) is scanner monitoring. There is a law that any scanner manufactured after a certain year was not allowed to receive the cell phone band.
So people bought the older ones that did. But the point is moot because […]