"Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State".

I'm glad to see others say what I've been saying: today's digital surveillance is worse than in the Soviet Empire, and it is taking us towards tyranny.

I wish he didn't assert that "we" do all sorts of foolish things. I don't do them. I hope you don't either.

Even though PRISM does not allow the government direct access to servers, the government's spying represents a direct threat to the US Constitution and American values.

I disagree with only one point of that article, but it is an important one. Even though big Internet companies sometimes to oppose government spying, they are nonetheless part of the problem. If these companies did not collect so much information about Internet users, the government would not be able to make them hand it over.

The EU says it no longer advocates "austerity", but doesn't plan to increase euro-zone deficit spending, so in fact it will still practice austerity. However, now it wants to attack workers' rights too.

Reminding Senator Spy Feinstein that the Fourth Amendment is not a mere suggestion.

The US Postal Service photographs every piece of mail.

While it is useful to be able to identify the person who sent these ricin-laced letters (perhaps giving a new meaning to the term "poison pen"), the extension of pervasive surveillance to our physical mail worries me more than the ricin.