who has your back
https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2014
internet identity and footprint are things to consider online.
-fyi... everything on facebook is not yours! when you agree to the terms and conditions you sign away ownership of everything posted on the website including images, videos, text, and any information posted by others including slander and false accusations.
now this doesnt directly impact us in our daily lives as much as we think. but what happens when potential electorates are snubbed out of the competition becuase of something they posted, or someone else posted online.
look at what happened to bret farve... pictures of his penis circulated the internet like wild fire. that is a mans private life... and private... parts being exposed and put out on the internet... once on facebook... they own it.
the information is sold to governments and marketers. ed snowden is a prime example of this abuse of power. snowden is a liberator. and a hero. the state has considered him an enemy, naturally.
but the abuse of power, the shutting down of businesses, the mass spying on the american people is clearly wrong and our government specifically the NSA has overstepped its boundaries.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140520/07001227292/germany-plans-to-ban-computer-companies-that-work-with-nsa-sensitive-public-contracts.shtml
The principle was lucidly explained by the policy intellectual Samuel P.
Huntington, who instructed us that "Power remains strong when it
remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate."
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