BOOKS / Jonah Raskin on The Peep Diaries
To Peep or Not to Peep? That is the Question By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / April 11, 2009 [The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, by Hal Niedzviecki, City...
View ArticleFCC Warrantless Searches : Coming to a Home Near You?
FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts ‘Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference,’ says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That...
View ArticleDeep Packet Inspection : Global Censorship Technology Used in Iran — AND in U.S.
Deep Packet Inspection:Free Press warns of global censorship technology deployed in U.S. DPI technology is America’s sleeping giant. It has been widely deployed by Internet service providers across the...
View ArticleJonah Raskin : Google Is Not God
Illustration © 2007 by Stuart Brown / Modern Life.Google is not God:Whatever happened to privacy in America? By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2010 Google often seems to be all-powerful, and as...
View ArticlePeter Finn : Drone Used in Austin Raises Privacy Issues
Wasp III drone — the kind used by Texas DPS in 2009 Austin police operation. Grab from KVUE.com / Austin.Drones over Austin:Law enforcement use of aerial dronesraises issues of privacy, civil liberties...
View ArticleLamar W. Hankins : Government Lies and Secrecy Destroy Credibility
Whistleblower Edward Snowden. Image from MGN Online. Government lies andsecrecy destroy credibility “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither...
View ArticleSteve Russell : Big Brother in the Data Mines
Cover of the first Signet Classics edition of George Orwell’s 1984. Image from Vintage Paperback Archive. We’re talking yottabytes here: Big Brother in the data mines We’ve been living for some time in...
View ArticleRAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Jim Hightower Brings the Lowdown on ‘Poopgate’...
Texas populist gadfly Jim Hightower at the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, September 13, 2013. Photos by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast: Famed Texas populist commentator and...
View ArticleLarry Ray : Pentecostals, Baptists, and ‘naked images’
Too much naked truth for Mississippi prison workers when they get zapped by body scanners. By Larry Ray | The Rag Blog | January 29, 2014 GULFPORT, Mississippi — Here’s looking at you, kid! There ought...
View ArticleJack A. Smith : Obama defends NSA spying on Americans
Senator Obama pledged to dismantle the most intrusive aspects of Bush’s surveillance programs. Instead, President Obama secretly allowed those programs to expand. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog |...
View ArticleRon Jacobs : BOOKS |‘Technocreep’ and how we are seduced by surveillance
Thomas Keenan has written a helpful description of the kinds of surveillance undertaken by corporations, governments, criminal enterprises, and just plain creeps every second of every day. By Ron...
View ArticleLamar W. Hankins : FILM | Oscar-winning ‘Citizenfour’ documents one citizen’s...
Laura Pointras tells Snowden’s story in an engaging account that is both enlightening and unsettling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2015 Citizen Four is the name used by 29-year-old...
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