oppose surveillance
2014-Feb-11, Tuesday 06:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI should have prepared a better post ahead of time, but this quick announcement is all I'll have time for today.
I've been president of a gay student group in a time when being gay could still be considered a security risk and a political fringe. I've been involved with the Radical Faeries, even further into the sociopolitical fringe. I've dated a foreign national (a chemist who was also military), and I still communicate with him across national borders. I've participated in the local Occupy movement. I am, therefore, a person of interest. If you've spent any time communicating with me... then so are you.
The only way for a surveillance state to be certain that you aren't influencing me (or me influencing you) for nefarious purposes is for the government to look more closely at your own activities, right?
- https://thedaywefightback.org/
Data is valuable, and information is power. I oppose government surveillance when it means that data is held in secret by a few. I have to head out now for a long and busy work day, but I hope to explore later in greater detail how I think data should be used in our new society of technological telepaths. Oversimplified, this collective memory should be accessible by everyone or no one.
#stopthensa #thedaywefightback
I've been president of a gay student group in a time when being gay could still be considered a security risk and a political fringe. I've been involved with the Radical Faeries, even further into the sociopolitical fringe. I've dated a foreign national (a chemist who was also military), and I still communicate with him across national borders. I've participated in the local Occupy movement. I am, therefore, a person of interest. If you've spent any time communicating with me... then so are you.
The only way for a surveillance state to be certain that you aren't influencing me (or me influencing you) for nefarious purposes is for the government to look more closely at your own activities, right?
| The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world." — The New York Times | The NSA collected "almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks" in one month in 2013. — The Guardian |
| The NSA is collecting the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else as part of what it calls "upstream" collection. — The Washington Post | The NSA "is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans." — The Washington Post |
| The NSA "is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world." — The Washington Post | The NSA "is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and text communications into and out of the country." — The New York Times |
Data is valuable, and information is power. I oppose government surveillance when it means that data is held in secret by a few. I have to head out now for a long and busy work day, but I hope to explore later in greater detail how I think data should be used in our new society of technological telepaths. Oversimplified, this collective memory should be accessible by everyone or no one.
#stopthensa #thedaywefightback