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Data about voters and donors

lundi 22 août 2016 à 02:00

US political parties and campaigns collect so much data about voters and donors that the possibility crackers will get copies of the data is a significant danger.

I think this is a symptom of a bigger problem: campaigns have too much data about people. That data can get misused in various ways. Even the normal practice of campaigning suffers, because this invites campaigns to say different things to different supporters, and something else to the public.

Urgent: Stop census gerrymandering

lundi 22 août 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: call on the Census Bureau to count prisoners for the places their homes are, not for the where the prison is.

Urgent: Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge

lundi 22 août 2016 à 02:00

Citizens of Massachusetts: call on Massachusetts legislators not to shrink Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, a crucial rest stop for migrating birds.

Deutsche Bank whistleblower

lundi 22 août 2016 à 02:00

Eric Ben-Artzi was offered 8 million dollars in reward for reporting crime at Deutsche Bank, but he says he will give it to charity because the US didn't prosecute the top officials who were responsible for the crimes.

100,000 climate refugees in the US

lundi 22 août 2016 à 02:00

Fire and flood in the US due to global heating have produced 100,000 climate refugees.

This is a foretaste of much worse to come, if we don't defeat the planet roasters.