If They Can Lie About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria & Iran.

FISA spying criteria were designed carefully to allow the NSA to collect lots of information about Americans while creating excuses to say it was "inadvertent" and we were not "targeted".

The ACLU is arguing in an amicus brief that the state should need a warrant to access a cell phone's location data.

Some states are passing laws requiring this.

These laws are a step forward, but they are inadequate.

A GPS tracker on a car collects data only once it is placed. Requiring the state to get a warrant before placing a tracker on someone's car is adequate protection of privacy in regard to that technology, because it prevents the state from tracking everyone's car all the time (at least, doing so this way).

By contrast, requiring the state to get a warrant in order to access previously recorded cell phone location data is inadequate, because the system builds a dossier about each person advance, and the state could take it later if it presents a reason to investigate someone. This is ideal for fishing expeditions against whistleblowers, or anyone the state wants to get. Cell phones perform dangerously excessive surveillance by collecting this data in the first place.

To restore privacy rights we must prevent the collection of so much data about a person unless there is already a warrant.

Over 140,000 Demand Nestlé Reduce Canadian Water Pumping Operations During Ontario Drought Conditions.

The government should have the authority to impose these limits, even if Nestle has a contract to buy water.

Individual Germans are filing criminal charges against the US over NSA spying.

I agree with what the German Pirate and Green politicians say.