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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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More of a militarist

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

Clinton has been more of a militarist than Obama, and has been a good friend of dictators.

Greenwashing

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

Earth Day has been coopted by businesses for greenwashing.

Half a day's profits

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

Exxon was fined half a day's profits for the pipeline break in Mayflower, Arkansas.

Marching every night

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

Protesters are marching every night in Baltimore over the killing of Freddie Gray by thugs.

Proposed FAA regulations

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

The proposed FAA regulations for drones do not consider the surveillance issue.

To protect the public's right to anonymity, we need to regulate systems that record, including fixed cameras as well as terrestrial, aquatic and aerial drones. More generally, we need to prevent the collection of information about people's movements in public places, except for individuals subject to court-ordered surveillance.

Obscurity, making it hard to find and correlate all the data about you, can play a useful role. However, in order for obscurity to block governments from collecting and correlating all of that data, we need more than procedural limits. Systems must be designed so that collecting and correlating the data about any one person is substantial work, and there is no economy of scale to doing this about everyone in parallel.