Privacy Is a Fundamental Value

Privacy Is a Fundamental ValueJeffrey Folks – The administrative class delights in imposing its views on the rest of us, especially when it involves our private lives. Small businesses are made to prepare wedding cakes for gays; young children are forced to study sexual practices from which they ought to be shielded; workers are made to attend classes on DIE in which, if they are white, they are accused of racism and exploitation, even as they are the ones being exploited by racism. We live in a world turned upside-down, and it can only end in chaos.

For the woke class that now governs our country, it’s not enough that gays and transgenders, now treated as minorities and thus victims, are granted complete equality and full human rights. What they seem to want, and what the administrative class imposes on the rest of us, is superiority and oppression of others who are straight.

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Schools Using Facial Recognition, AI Tech To Monitor Kids

Schools Using Facial Recognition, AI Tech To Monitor KidsNiamh Harris – Parents and students alike are growing increasingly concerned about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies at school.

According to a survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) more than half of parents and students surveyed were concerned about the use of facial recognition and other AI technologies, including location tracking systems, in schools.

Teachers, who also were surveyed, showed a higher degree of acceptance of the technologies. But is it reassuring or invasive? Continue reading

Simon Black ~ CIA Spies On Senate. Here’s How To Take Back Your Digital Privacy [Free]

“If you agree with the premise that every person has the right to protect their personal matters and privacy from the Big Brother, there are free options to use out there that can ensure your communications, your digital presence and activity, and your data remain secure and private.” S Black

GovtSpyingSpoleto, Italy ~ Back in March serious allegations came out of the Senate that the CIA was monitoring and even hacking Senate computers. They were denied vehemently at the time by CIA director John Brennan, who went so far as to say “that’s just beyond the scope of reason.”

Unsurprisingly, of course, the CIA has now come out saying that, yes, they did in fact spy on Senate aides’ computers. Oh, and that they’re sorry. Very sorry.

This is stuff that would have been a major scandal not too long ago, causing a public outcry for the heads of those responsible.

Today, it seems par for the course. It’s taken for granted that governments around the world, spearheaded by Uncle Sam, monitor communication via email, phone, social networks, webcam etc. en masse.

And nothing happens.

Despite Edward Snowden’s decision last year to basically condemn his life to that of a fugitive and branded “traitor” by shedding a major spotlight on just exactly how brazenly and extensively the US government invades the privacy of people all around the world, the reaction, at least in the US, was muted.

As the saying goes, ‘The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.’ Continue reading