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Questions to Zuckerberg

dimanche 27 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg some carefully chosen questions. His answers will aid the investigation of Facebook's cover-up of its dealings with Cambridge Analytica.

Urgent: NRA tax exemption

dimanche 27 octobre 2019 à 02:00

US citizens: call on the IRS to investigate the NRA's violations of the laws for tax-exempt organizations.

Face recognition at festivals

dimanche 27 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Fight for the Future organized musicians and fans to pressure US music festivals to back off use of face recognition.

Are there any festivals that still plan to use it?

Automated face recognition

dimanche 27 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Why we need to ban automated face recognition. (Note that article's title is misleading, a red herring. The author of an article in a newspaper does not write the title.)

Another reason to reject the straw man suggestion to simply wait and let the Supreme Court decide is that we can't count on it to protect our privacy. If all we wanted was to have the question decided, never mind how, we could leave it to the Supreme Court. But if we want anonymity, that approach won't work. We can't campaign to influence the Supreme Court. So we must campaign to influence legislatures.

We do need to campaign to limit all kinds of surveillance. But that is not a reason to avoid deciding specific cases. Quite the contrary: laws banning face recognition would pave the way for restricting other kinds of massive surveillance.

Entry of whistleblowers into partisan politics

dimanche 27 octobre 2019 à 02:00

The entry of whistleblowers into partisan politics has convinced some congresscritters to defend some whistleblowers.

By contrast, whistleblowers such as Manning and Snowden were condemned by everyone in Congress.