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'Smart' gadget activity reporting

mardi 23 avril 2019 à 02:00

Amazon and Google want "smart" gadgets to report all activity to them.

In other words, if you have a "smart" (read "spy") light bulb with that proposed feature, and tell an Amazon or Google listening device about it, thenceforth any time you switched it on or off no matter how, it would send a report to Amazon or Google.

Even today, the only way to make "smart" products safe is to ensure they cannot connect to anyone else's systems.

Privatized immigration prisons

mardi 23 avril 2019 à 02:00

Privatized immigration prisons frequently violate prisoners' rights. The companies know they can get away with it and won't be punished, because ICE hardly ever insists.

This is an example of a general principle: privatizing a government activity makes it unaccountable, and the businesses cheat.

Private prisons should be abolished. In general, no government activity should be privatized, unless there is no reason for the government to be involved at all.

Urgent: Kavanaugh hiring

mardi 23 avril 2019 à 02:00

Everyone: call on George Mason University not to hire sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Urgent: Atlantic Coast Pipeline

mardi 23 avril 2019 à 02:00

Everyone: tell Bank of America to stop financing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Urgent: No war with Iran

mardi 23 avril 2019 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to block the US government from attacking Iran.

If you sign, please spread the word!