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Asia Media International
February 8, 2018
They carried signs in Bahasa Indonesia reading, “Don't oppress Muslims,” “Don't criticize our Facebook status,” “Stop the blocking of social media accounts of Islam,” and “Stop watching us and being unfair/racist on Islam.” The spokesman for the FPI claimed that FPI just wants Facebook to be neutral andÃâà...
Engadget
January 20, 2018
On Friday afternoon, just hours before Congress failed to avert a government shutdown, the President signed into law the "FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017." The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this week with the support of many Republicans and Democrats, offering only slightÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 13, 2017
A Chinese live-streaming website has come under fire for airing feeds from surveillance cameras, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Wednesday. The report said a man and a woman dressed in pyjamas were seen in footage aired on Shuidi, the live broadcast website operated by Qihoo 360 TechnologyÃâà...
SupChina
December 12, 2017
Online live broadcast service Waterdrop Livestream 水滴直播, operated by internet company Qihoo 360, is under fire after a video investigative report by citizen journalist Chen Feifei 陈菲菲 exposed the company's installation of surveillance cameras in various locations across Beijing. Real-time footageÃâà...
Haaretz
September 19, 2017
An Israeli composer has written a musical composition about the 45th U.S. president, called The Trump Sonata. Avner Hananis 12-minute sonata is split into six movements, titled Good Time, Love, Smile (about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton), Build the Wall, Apologize and Ill Be Back. The new workÃâà...
The Nation.
May 28, 2015
Four years ago, I was out jogging with an old friend when she told me a puzzling story: Her longtime UPS driver had just reappeared after more than a monthlong absence. He'd been hospitalized for stress, she told me. Ad Policy. Stress? How stressful could that job be? So I asked to meet him. Over coffeeÃâà...
The Guardian
October 27, 2013
Billed by organizers as "the largest rally yet to protest mass surveillance", Stop Watching Us was sponsored by an unusually broad coalition of left- and right-wing groups, including everything from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Green Party, Color of Change and Daily Kos to the Libertarian Party,Ãâà...
CNET
October 25, 2013
In protest of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, thousands of people are expected to march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The rally is being put together by a coalition of diverse groups that have come together under the umbrella organization Stop Watching Us.
Huffington Post
October 7, 2013
The dreaded sight of a ticket on your windshield is never fun, but now the dread is increasingly coming to your mailbox, especially if you drive in Washington, D.C. As of July 31, drivers in the nation's capital have paid nearly $70 million in traffic camera fines this year (they paid nearly $100 million in 2012),Ãâà...
CIO
June 14, 2013
Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of Internet and phone records via a program known as PRISM.
