NSA: Greenwald to speak in L.A. (June 19)

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; HaymarketBooks.org; KPFK.org

Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Metropolitan Books, and KPFK FM (Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles).

Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State

• Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 7:00 pm
• Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC)
• 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 See map
• TICKETS only $6

Glenn Greenwald

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet a source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels.
 

Read a chapter free (truthdig.org)

That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA spy, teacher, and Booz Allen Hamilton (mole) contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.

As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures.
 

Best pres we never had: Emperor 0

In April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. See Greenwald live and in-person as he puts all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 11-day trip to Hong Kong but more importantly examining the broader implications of state surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.

Greenwald will be signing his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

• Part of the Glenn Greenwald Speaks: Edward Snowden, NSA, and US Surveillance State

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Trying to escape the Surveillance State (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; author, researcher, and journalist Julia Angwin with Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, Juan González (democracynow.org)

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin visited Democracy Now! to discuss her new book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Currently at ProPublica and previously with The Wall Street Journal, Angwin details her complex path toward increasing her own online privacy as a private citizen.

According to her research, the private data collected by East Germany’s Soviet-era Stasi secret police at its height of abuse pales in comparison to the information revealed today by an individual’s Facebook profile or Google search history, which is never erased by Google even when we clear our history. It is used by the government for unconstitutional unwarranted spying on Americans, by police to give everyone a police record, and by advertisers to target individuals. More

• Obama Administration confirms warrantless "backdoor" searches target U.S. citizens 
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• Koch Brothers-backed measure bans transit funding in Tennessee
• GM CEO apologizes to the dead, family victims, but fails to explain negligence [which was due to a profit motive for the car compy after a very conscious cost-benefit analysis]
• Obama celebrates [weak, insurance-friendly] health law enrollment numbers
• NATO suspends formal cooperation with Russia
• Palestinian Authority signs International Conventions after Israel goes back on promised prisoner release 
• Obama Administration: No decision on release of jailed spy 
• Group: Syrian civilian death toll could reach 220,000
• House votes to block climate research

Google = New frontiers in Gov't Spying (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Katherine Albrecht; Quentyn Kennemer; DemocracyNow.org; Mark Weinstein (sgrouples.com)

With praise from the mainstream media, Albrecht may not represent a real alternative to Google search with Startpage.com and Ixquick.com, but maybe. She says she does.

Obama administration inherits spying apparatus...then keeps it going and growing

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez spell out the CIA-Google connection (ETL)

(ITN) Hey, Patriot, want to keep America free from weirdos and subversives like your friends and parents? Of course, you do. Uncle NSA and Sexual Harassment Panda want you to wear this tiny spy camera so we can end the horror of privacy once and for all. It'll be our secret.

 

Creepy new Google Glass SuperSpy app

Quentyn Kennemer (Phandroid.com, Feb. 5, 2014) 

Google Glass doesn't lead to brain cancer (SL)

Google Glass app can instantly identify anyone they look at, give information to wearer. Google has reached out to remind us that it’s ["evil" after all] against their developer policies (section C.1.e) to approve Glassware that has any sort of facial recognition technology.

As such, they will not be distributing the app through official channels. It could still be possible for the developer to distribute the app themselves and have users sideload it, but there is little chance such an app would get wide distribution.

 

The world has seen its fair share of creepy apps, but this one takes the cake. It’s called NameTag. And in Robocop-like fashion, the app can scan a person’s face and [deliver a dossier on anybody, anywhere]. More

  

An alternative?

What is STARTPAGE? It is the world’s most private search engine, safe from NSA spying, and Albrecht helped create it. What about "private" email. Coming soon is STARTMAIL. A short video explains. Anyone can reserve an (upcoming) fully private paid email account. Get off of "free" CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS, NSC-laden services like Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail and escape from government spying, claims Albrecht.

 

Think Prism is bad, look at Quantum

What can we say about radio host Dr. Albrecht except that she has provided a great deal of information about homeland spying, "smart" meters, frequency pollution, RFID tracking chips, and other government intrusions in the name of "security." If Snowden turns out to be a plant and a tricky but intentional means of NSA disclosure, anything is possible with Albrecht. Until then, very few people are providing insider-information on these matters the way she is.

Surprise! SnapChat pictures DON'T really disappear! Here's how to retrieve them. OMG.

• SPYING ALERT: SnapChat pictures DON'T disappear! $20 "SnapHack" app lets anyone retrieve them
• Is Instagram PRIVATE social networking? No, says Mark Weinstein, founder of Sgrouples.com
• Princeton Univ. study: Facebook is about to lose 80% of users. Why? Facebook is NOT cool (TIME.com) Facebook’s growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.
• Facebook, FBI (CNN), NSA, CIA (the rest of TV), and Gov't operatives in extreme damage control mode
• Twitter stock loses 1/5th of its value today, 18% down
• Seattle dive bar first to BAN government's Google Glass
• Quantum: NSA tracks computers offline, without wifi
• The Government is Google (G-men who Ogle) not Zucker'
• OH, Bama! Government's healthcare.gov spies on users
• "Google" (like lots of Silicon Valley) bankrolled by CIA
• U.S. Government also infiltrated MicroSoft until it got a better deal from Apple
• Net corporations spy on citizens and give it to Gov't
• Stop me before I give your emails and data away again
• Does CHINA have all these problems? Weibo, Renren, etc.
  
• Hi, NSA, what's going on, guys?

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