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This kinda pokes a hole in the argument that apple's walled garden provides a better user experience ....

(well that, and me owning an iPhone to know what a pain in the ass it is to have thy will be done on it.)

(not that Android is immune to this, but at least you're not paying extra to be worse off with Android)

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Surely this won't be used to harass law-abiding citizens practicing their constitutional right to carry a firearm. Surely this will scare criminals away, right?
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Actually, if I were an armed criminal, I would most want to commit crime somewhere where people were unarmed and unlikely to strike back. Somewhere like... New York.

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Apparently police are now suing lawyers who file public records requests for dashcam videos. Just in case proving your innocence against lying police wasn't hard enough. 
This is some of the most major bullshit ever.
C.O.P.S. somehow managed just fine, with sophisticated privacy technology called "bleeps" and "blurred faces". What a load of total fucking bullshit.

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes licks the asshole of authority, and loves the taste.

Love the statute of limitations angle in the article too - they said they would release video past the statue of limitations, so it can't be used against them. BUT IT'S USED AGAINST US. I guess those limitations only apply if you're an officer committing a crime, and not a civilian committing a crime, eh?

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the cost to store all phone calls made by all citizens will fall from about 17 cents per person per year today to under 2 cents per person per year in 2015. 

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Yup. Odds are your phone is reporting every keystroke you make and every text you make to a central data collection authority. Gee, you think the NSA won't make thousands of requests for that data, the way they do with google accounts, cell phone CALLS, etc, etc?

You are paying more money than a landline to have less privacy. At least root your phone and remove this shit.

Apple doesn't seem to use this package, most likely because they have their own in house data collection and warehousing.

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People -- If you don't want your posts on google, don't post things publicly. If you whine that google now indexing public facebook comments is somehow a violation of privacy, then you are demonstrating your feeble understanding of how the world works. It is not a violation of privacy to index public content; it's what google and many other search engines have done for 15 years. If you dont' want your content indexed, DON'T POST IT PUBLICY. If you're too much of a pussy to have a voice, go shut up.

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TorPark is a standalone version of Firefox that you can put on your USB thumbdrive. It automatically uses the TOR network to hide your IP address and anonymize your connection. Use this if you are a Chinese dissident who needs to blog, or if you are at

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Milwaukee's taverns and nightclubs could be required to install security cameras to keep an eye on customers both inside and outside, if a new ordinance is passed. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

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As if cameras weren't bad enough -- now TALKING "too aggressively" will guarantee police harassament (and also cause cameras to swivel around and point at you).

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Not news, but a good description of how society will evolve, in one generation, into a society where everyone must have a microchip implanted into them to be a successful member of society. Remember: Years ago, the concept of a urine test was offensive t

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Learn what signing statements are. Bush has issued more than all presidents combined. They basically let him interpret a law to mean whatever he wants. In this case, the law SPECIFICALLY protected postal mail, and he added a signing statement saying "N

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U.S. Defense contractors keep finding 'bugged' Canadian coins. What gives?

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Yet another reason to avoid TiVo?

Then again, I'd love to be a Neilson family. But that's NOT what this is.

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How would you like your ISP to be legally required to log your instant messages and webpages? The Republicans sponsored this, but the Democrats support it too.

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Do you really think it's less here in America, with a much larger population?

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It's getting worse. Soon your private photo uploads willb e monitored by the government for illegal content. I am going to blog about this separately in another post.

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This is a set of links used to remove items from Google, Google's cache, etc.

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They want to change the law so that what Bush did would be legal, moving forward
(It was never legal.)
FISA was established in 1978 and has worked ever since.
That's not good enough for these big brother cronies.

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UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) have already been used in the U.S. too.
Expect to be watched wherever you go. Privacy is disappearing.

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Yes. The text on your monitor can be read via radio signals. You have no privacy. Your personal info can be snooped on from the street corner.

Please be aware of the technical state of privacy. It is important.

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