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I Guess Libertarians Are Okay With This

23 Saturday Jan 2021

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corporations, law, Libertarian Party, privacy, spying

After all, no force was used in this insidious scheme of spying on US citizens, presumably to include many Americans.

In a new document made public Friday, the nation’s top military intelligence agency acknowledged monitoring the location of U.S.-based mobile devices without a warrant through location data drawn from ordinary smartphone apps.

Sure, we used to have that Fourth Amendment thing, but it wouldn’t even apply in this case, in which the spy agencies used data purchased from common commercial sources. No warrant was or is required. No problem, right?

I’ve been thinking about the worship of the private business and privatization, of which I was once too guilty. This story made a great lede into the subject, a follow-up to yesterday’s deconstruction of the “Party of Principle [SIC].” Look around today and some of the worst abuses of freedom and privacy are committed by organizations that end with “Inc.” Google, Palpal, YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Faceberg, etc. are all private companies, so what they do, even if concerning, if okay – because private. The libertarians (and many conservatives) cheered when the bulk of control over the US internet changed hands from a government agency to a private corporation.

The phenomenon goes far beyond Big Tech. Banks play political correctness policing and identity politics as do many other businesses from insurance agencies to big-box retailers. One business after another (generally of the larger variety) falls in line with anti-Western nonsense like LGBTVPC, BLM, baby murder, and more.

When anyone on the legitimate right criticizes one of these nefarious corporate decisions or statements, he is usually hit with the old, tired, and idiotic accusation that he is no better than a socialist.

Yet, what do all of these companies have in common? They are all “private” corporations. And corporations are merely fake “persons” created, as if by black magic, for the general purpose of avoiding liability. They are created, as if by black magic, by government sanctification. They are government entities. Let the marijuana smoke clear out and think about that.

What the libertarians, again, fail to grasp is the nature of observable reality. There is a definite and known nexus between government tyranny and woke corporatocracy. The means are slightly different if highly intertwined, but the ends are the same – oppression of real people and the suppression of real human rights.

In strong nations, comprised of solid, compatible demographics and where the governments answer to the people they serve, this isn’t a problem – for the people. Not long ago in Poland, IKEA came to town and opened a store. They employed a local Christian (not a rarity in distinct, coherent, Catholic Poland). A manager instructed the Christian employee to participate in a woke corporate worship of sodomy and degeneracy. The employee, citing Christian doctrine, declined. IKEA fired the employee.

In Amerika, that would be the end of the story, unless the mob piled on and harassed the Christian further. Libertarians would defend the satanic, government-entity corporation’s actions, because PRIIIIIVATE! A few decent people might boycott IKEA and find themselves labeled as intolerant bigots. But, most importantly, no moral lines would have been crossed because PRIVATE and because no force was used.

In Poland, as soon as the Christian informed his nationalistic public servants, people at IKEA were arrested and sentenced to prison for violating the rights of a Christian.

In the original story, I’m sure that many civil libertarians are genuinely concerned about the overreach or existence of the underlying spy agencies – and they should be. However, their defense of all things private, contractual, and free renders much of their protesting mute. And, because of their tendency towards the atheistic and the egocentric, they have a difficult time realizing the value of the person above the involved government-corporate machine. Again, if they could put down the dope, the proper order goes something like this: the individual is to be respected; the government is to assist the individual, and; the corporation, if it must exist (a large “if”), should be strictly limited by the government from abusing the rights of the individual.

A Bonus, regarding the LP’s statement on the peaceful protests of January Sixth: Why is it that the LP’s wimpy statement is precisely in line with those from the other political parties, the government itself, the media, and hordes of those “private” corporations? It’s because they are utterly confused, out-of-touch, and disingenuous. Peaceful protesting against corrupt governance is unacceptable violence, yet the murder of a million babies each year is a good-faith draw? Bullshit.

Here, again, their replacement or displacement of Christian morality helps them miss the greater point. What goes on in that Capital that so horribly violated by people who only wanted a fair election? Two days before the “riot,” the 2021 Congressional Session opened with a “prayer” from a dullard shyster (Awoman!) to a pagan demon, Brahma. No collection of criminals, so satanically possessed, can honestly clamor about the dangers posed by an “assault” by the very, generally God-fearing people they are supposed to represent in the first place. Where was the statement of condemnation about that?

It’s Christian Nationalism, or it’s chaos, slavery, spying, violence, death, and despair – with or without the alleged benefits of herbal intoxicants.

A Question For Attorneys Of Good Will,

24 Sunday May 2020

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civil liberties, FERPA, law, privacy, schools, students

if any…

I mentioned this a few days ago but have no time to look into it. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, protects student records from publication. Fourth-class government school districts coast-to-coast “debt shame” students, to include the mass publication of education-related “debts” – at taxpayer-funded government schools – to include student names and identifying information. Some of the debts include school meals, many of which may be otherwise covered by various federal programs run by the DOE and the USDA.

Question(s): Does such publication constitute a FERPA or other legal violation? If so, might some of you make class action hay out of it? Does the DOJ care about civil rights? Did they ever? Does anyone care?

I do but, again, lack the time. I’ll spell out my contribution: H-O-M-E-S-C-H-O-O-L.

Why Would Any Sane Homeowner Install This Stuff?

29 Wednesday Jan 2020

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evil, Facebook, privacy, Ring, spying, stupid, technology

People use to value privacy. Now they pay to get rid of it. Ring clandestinely sells out users to Farcebook.

Amazon’s Ring smart doorbell surveillance product has been caught sending user data to Facebook and other companies without making Ring users aware their data was being shared. That’s according to an investigation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). What’s even more alarming is Ring users are having their data sent to Facebook even if they themselves don’t have Facebook accounts.

The EFF examined Ring’s latest Android app and found that it had four unlisted trackers sending Ring user data back to four websites including branch.io, mixpanel.com, appsflyer.com, and facebook.com. This is despite Ring’s privacy policy, which purports to list all the trackers being used in its software. That privacy policy was last updated over a year and a half ago and doesn’t list three of the four new trackers discovered.

And, why would anyone do business with the big tech companies that… Oh, yeah. Monopolies and all. Maybe low tech (or no tech) is the way of the sane future. Otherwise, is it One Ring to report them all?

The Homeland Security Never Stops

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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DHS, privacy, spying

Spying. Facial recognition for all international flights.

READ all about the automated targeting system and the associated risks.

[One of many] Privacy Risk[s]: There is a risk that biometrics CBP uses to verify the identities of individuals and to determine whether to refer travelers for additional customs and immigration inspection in the Global Entry Program will be used for a purpose inconsistent with the purpose of the original collection.

When do government programs ever stick with their original purposes?

For Everyone Else, There’s HIPAA

21 Tuesday Jan 2020

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big tech, health, HIPAA, law, privacy, spying

For Big Evil Tech, there’s all your data and a piece of the $3 T pie. Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon care deeply about your health. Really.

The breadth of access wasn’t always spelled out by hospitals and tech giants when the deals were struck.

The scope of data sharing in these and other recently reported agreements reveals a powerful new role that hospitals play—as brokers to technology companies racing into the $3 trillion health-care sector. Rapid digitization of health records and privacy laws enabling companies to swap patient data have positioned hospitals as a primary arbiter of how such sensitive data is shared.

“Hospitals are massive containers of patient data,” said Lisa Bari, a consultant and former lead for health information technology for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center.

Hospitals can share patient data as long as they follow federal privacy laws, which contain limited consumer protections, she said. “The data belongs to whoever has it.”

Remember, it’s all about you, but it’s not yours. Slaves don’t own things, you know.

The Evil of AI: Submit for Brain Scan

12 Sunday Jan 2020

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AI, evil, Facebook, mind reading, privacy, technology

If you could read my mind, love,
What a tale my thoughts could tell…

-Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind

It’s coming.

A tiny fraction of the people is slowly waking up to the massive evil that is Faceberg, the socials, AI, and probably most modern technology.

Changing norms: Another big risk is that this neurotechnology might normalize a culture of mind-reading, causing us to give up — so slowly and subtly we almost don’t notice it’s happening — our expectations of mental privacy.

One day, our interiority could become a thing of the past, with the technology decoding not just the thoughts we’d like it to transcribe for our own convenience but also the thoughts we want to keep private. That could include everything we keep hidden in our inner sanctum, from sexual fantasies to political dissent.

“A lot of my concerns about Facebook accumulating this data are surveillance and civil liberties concerns. You’d worry about the way that Facebook would be helping build a surveillance state,” Nadler said, adding that being able to peer into the brain would be game-changing for law enforcement.

If you find it hard to imagine that a project incubated by Facebook could dramatically change norms around surveillance and law enforcement, just think for a minute about facial recognition technology. Facebook rolled out that tech years ago in an innocent context: tagging your friends in photos you posted on the social-media network. But now the tech is used for policing and surveillance, disproportionately harming people of color. And other giants like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are all mired in controversy over it.

It’s the other way around: the surveillance state helped build Farcebook and these other hellish companies. And, this won’t stop with implants, chips, and goofy helmets for playing Pong – those likely being a very short interim measure. The end goal is to REMOTELY read minds, either via some sort of intercept scanning beam or, more likely, through a continuous capture field, like that generated by, I don’t know … 5G.

They will not like my thoughts about them.

“1984” was an Optimistic Estimate

21 Saturday Dec 2019

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corporations, privacy, slavery, technology, tyranny

Tyranny – there’s an app for that.

This was the decade we gave our privacy away.

We took silly personality quizzes on Facebook Inc. that made Cambridge Analytica possible. We bought phones that tracked our locations everywhere we went. We plugged in smart speakers that sent recordings of our most intimate moments to humans overseas for transcription. We downloaded apps and plug-ins with reckless abandon. We installed security cameras everywhere. We clicked through terms of services without reading. We agreed to do whatever it took to make those pesky red badges on our phones go away. We are complicit in the corporate surveillance state we inhabit.

That doesn’t mean we weren’t duped. Companies tempted us with their free services. They downplayed the risks. They broke promises to safeguard our data. They presented themselves as silly apps, only to become world-changing communications platforms. They hired psychologists to manipulate us. They used the money they made from our data to buy lobbyists to fight off privacy regulations.

The New York Times explained on Thursday just what it means to hand over the kind of location data collected by our smartphones. The newspaper painted a terrifying portrait of the self-imposed surveillance state: “Within America’s own representative democracy, citizens would surely rise up in outrage if the government attempted to mandate that every person above the age of 12 carry a tracking device that revealed their location 24 hours a day. Yet, in the decade since Apple’s App Store was created, Americans have, app by app, consented to just such a system run by private companies.”

If you’re paying attention, this is not surprising. The Times wrote an article with many of the same revelations almost exactly a year ago. Other publications have been doing similar work for years.

The 2010s should be remembered as the decade tech turned dystopian.

Maybe it’s all best forgotten? Has anyone noticed that them internets are about as slow now as they were nearly twenty years ago? Half of the bogging down is the overkill graphics, ads, and disclaimers. The other half is surveillance. 5G is supposed to cure this. It won’t. Expect, in exchange for your health, perhaps a doubling of speeds – back to where we were in about 2010. The majority of the new capacity will be devoted to more spying. 5G isn’t a tool for transferring information. It’s one for gathering information. And they will love it. It’s not even amazing any more just how incredibly stupid most humans really are. Back to your cat videos.

You’re on Rancid Camera!

05 Wednesday Jun 2019

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FBI, privacy, stupid Amerikans

The FBI loves all those pics the people post on Farcebook and the socials.

A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million photographs — including from driver’s licenses, passports and mugshots — that can be searched using facial recognition technology.

The figure reflects how the technology is becoming an increasingly powerful law enforcement tool, but is also stirring fears about the potential for authorities to intrude on the lives of Americans. It was reported by the Government Accountability Office at a congressional hearing in which both Democrats and Republicans raised questions about the use of the technology.

Who among the rabble is wise enough to have their fears stirred? And, what, exactly, have these concern troll Democrats and Republicans done? The shit stupid people deserve what’s coming.

What Facebook Thinks of You: “There is no privacy”

31 Friday May 2019

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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Courts, Facebook, privacy

That’s what they said in Court, to a judge.

A lawyer for Facebook argued in court Wednesday that the social media site’s users “have no expectation of privacy.”

According to Law360, Facebook attorney Orin Snyder made the comment while defending the company against a class-action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

“There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” Snyder said.

In an attempt to have the lawsuit thrown out, Snyder further claimed that Facebook was nothing more than a “digital town square” where users voluntarily give up their private information.

Now, who out in the town square of old, sold your PRIVATE information, that you may or may not have willingly divulged, to the highest bidder? The first equivalent I came up with was ye old pickpocket.

5,400 Reasons to Rethink the “Smart” Phone

28 Tuesday May 2019

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1984, iPhone, phones, privacy, spying

Keep in mind, this resulted from a scan of a single man’s iPhone:

Monitoring software used by The Washington Post on an ordinary iPhone found that no fewer than 5,400 app trackers were sending data from the phone – in some cases including sensitive data like location and phone number.

It wasn’t too long ago that people paid a little extra for an unlisted phone number. You know, for a little more privacy. What a 180. If this concerns you – and why I bother with stories like this, I really don’t know – then consider a Faraday cage, some other signal blocker, or a dumb phone (no phone if you can manage and don’t mind). Or not.

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