We all know that the state's "secret services" work in secret, that goes without saying, so we the people never know what they are up to, what we can be sure of is that they are not working for the public at large, but working to maintain the established power structure. So the various laws covering their actions are not laid down to tell them how they will work, but to protect them should they get caught snooping where we don't believe they should. Therefore legislation covering the "secret service" will always get ever more invasive as technical abilities allow ever great surveillance, Stingray, for example. Keep the state and you keep the cancer of "secret services" For this reason I'm not a great lover of petitions as they never remove the real threat, the state, but what they can do is help highlight the murky details and intrusive nature of the state and its cavalier attitude to our liberties.
So I sign this petition and help broadcast it, not because I think it will sort the problem of state mass surveillance, but hoping it will alert more people to the truth about the illusion of democracy and the type of secret surveillance society we live under.
This from Care 2:
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Showing posts with label mass surveillance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mass surveillance. Show all posts
Wednesday 14 December 2016
Our Orwellian Society.
Tuesday 22 April 2014
An Open Internet, Or A Corporate Controlled Internet?
An urgent appeal from Open Media:
Here’s the situation: Obama himself
is in secretive meetings with key political figures and lobbyists in
Asia to lock the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Internet censorship
plan into place.
We know from leaked documents that this
secretive plan will censor your use of the Internet and strip away
your rights.1 If finalized, this plan would force ISPs to act as
“Internet Police” monitoring our Internet use, censoring content,
and removing whole websites.2
It will give media conglomerates
centralized control over what you can watch and share online.
This is huge: covering 40% of the
global economy, the TPP is being called a legal “blueprint” for
the rest of the world.[3] Once key leaders finalize TPP Internet
censorship plans today it will be used to globalize censorship across
the world. You
will be affected and this may be our only chance to stop it.
Our attention-grabbing message will
shine a light on their secret plan and will make clear to Washington
lobbyists that the Internet community will never accept the TPP’s
secrecy or censorship. The more who speak out, the larger our
projection will become, and the more people we can reach.
This
is a decisive moment: we need to act right now. Join with hundreds of
thousands of people all over the world to shine a light on the TPP’s
job-killing Internet censorship plan. Let’s send decision-makers
and the lobbyists pulling the strings a message they can’t ignore:
"Stop the secrecy now."
With every voice that is added to our
call, a donor will contribute to make Stop The Secrecy projection in
Washington bigger and brighter. We’ve stalled them before and we can
kill this censorship plan if we act together at this critical moment. The bureaucrats and lobbyists think
they can ram through this damaging binding plan behind your back and
without your consent. Will
you let them get away with it, John?
Thank you for being a part of history,
Steve, Josh, Eva, and David, on behalf
of your OpenMedia.org team
P.S., If the TPP censorship plan goes
through, the Internet as we know it will change forever. We’d be
left with an Internet that’s far more expensive, censored, and
policed. We know we can stop this - but we need to act right now. Can
we count on you to stand with us, John?
Footnotes
[1] “Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement (TPP).” Source: WikiLeaks.
[2] TPP Creates Legal Incentives For
ISPs To Police The Internet. What Is At Risk? Your Rights. Source:
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
[3] U.S. “Bullying” TPP Negotiators
Amid Failure to Agree. Source: Inter
Press Service News Agency. *Note: The U.S. and the E.U. are
already discussing a similar secretive agreement called
"Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)".
Once the TPP is finalized there will be pressure to harmonize and
extend its provisions to TTIP -- meaning the E.U. There are also
reports of several others countries being added to the TPP once it is
finalized.
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Thursday 20 February 2014
Big Brother Ain't Leaving Of His Own Accord.
Some interesting facts about our modern
day “democracy”. No matter what you do, e-mail, phone, chat on
social media, walk down your main street, stand at a bus stop, walk
into a bar, shop at the local supermarket, draw cash from a cash
machine, you are being watched and listened to, you are being
profiled. Big Brother wants to know what you are up to, who you
communicate with, who you meet and where.
This is the extent of your freedom,
this is the shape of your “democracy”. Do you believe that they
are doing this for your benefit? There was the day when you could
expect the “bad guys” to be followed and spied on, but in today's
“democracy”, everybody is treated like the “bad guys”. Today
the state sees no reason why it shouldn't poke its nose into every
aspect of everybody's life, to them, everybody is a possible “bad
guy” and has to be watched constantly.
This mass surveillance, this over all
scrutiny of our every action, is not going to go away anytime soon.
It will only get more intrusive as technology is driven by the
paranoid state, which wants total control over its citizens. The
state has a constant fear that people will always strive to control
their own lives and this would negate the state's existence,
obviously it can't let this happen.
If you want a free democratic society,
free from constant intrusive surveillance, then it has to be a
society without the state, a community based society organised from
the bottom up. The only answer is a society based on co-operation,
mutual aid and mutual respect, not one of power and authority.
- The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world." — The New York Times
- The NSA "is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world." — Washington Post
- The NSA "is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world." — Washington Post
- The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data." — Washington Post
- NSA "officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests." — The New York Times
- NSA "is secretly piggybacking” on Internet
advertisers' "cookies" and location data
“to pinpoint targets for government hacking and
to bolster surveillance." — Washington
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