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| | www.jmbf.org
| | JsticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) I Defending Human Rights, Fighting for Social Justice, and Empowering Communities
| | www.schneier.com
| | Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden's cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people-including President Obama-discounted the seriousness of the NSA's actions by saying that it's just metadata. Lots and lots of people effectively demolished that trivialization, but the arguments are generally subtle and hard to convey quickly and simply. I have a more compact argument: metadata equals surveillance. Imagine you hired a detective to eavesdrop on someone. He might plant a bug in their office. He might tap their phone. He might open their mail. The result would be the details of that person's communications. That's the "data."...
| | veritenews.org
| Janice Parker has seen the failing medical care at Angola on her visits to see her paralyzed son. Laws passed at the behest of Gov. Jeff Landry threaten to further strain that system.