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Category: Civil Liberties

NSA spying revelations are costing American technology companies

March 21st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

It’s clear to every single tech company that this is affecting their bottom line. — Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology and

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Mass Incarceration: The whole pie

March 16th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics
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Mark Zuckerberg rebukes Obama administration over NSA spying

March 13th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government. The U.S. government should be the

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Snowden says he raised NSA concerns internally over ten times before leaking documents

March 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

I had reported these clearly problematic programs to more than ten distinct officials, none of whom took any action to address them. — Edward Snowden, explaining

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Two Texas reproductive health clinics close, a harbinger of a coming access crisis

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Two Texas reproductive health clinics close, a harbinger of a coming access crisis

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Arizona business groups overwhelmingly opposed to SB 1062

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

The state already is known as being discriminatory… This would muddy the water and give Arizona a more terrible reputation. — Howard Fleischmann, majority owner

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Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill Pressure is mounting on Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, to veto Senate Bill 1062, which would

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Jeff Flake: Jan Brewer should veto anti-LGBT bill

February 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

I hope Governor Brewer vetoes SB 1062. — U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on Twitter, publicly expressing his hope that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will choose

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Fundamentalist Republican national committeeman doesn’t see that he’s hurting his own party with his bigoted remarks

February 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

What happens is big money and big power goes to individuals and says you will come against Dave or I’m going to make sure you

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Republicans don’t want to govern because they can’t agree on policy directions

February 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Economic Security

Republicans don’t want to govern because they can’t agree on policy directions Greg Sargent observes that while Republicans can agree on winning, they can’t agree

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Haven’t seen Ellen Page’s moving coming-out speech yet? It’s worth watching!

February 17th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Courtesy of the Human Rights Campaign, here is Ellen Page’s moving coming-out speech at HRC’s Time to Thrive Conference.

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Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’

September 25th, 2012 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

Digital privacy public service announcement: Dave is an extremely gifted clairvoyant who finds out specific financial information. This video reveals the magic behind the magic,

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Technology shouldn’t give Big Brother a head start

August 11th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

It’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. No matter what the eavesdroppers and censors say,

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