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STOP-SURVEILLANCE DAY

It’s Anti-Surveillance-Day, 14 February 2014

February 11, 2014,by Henry Giroux, appeared at Truth-out.org.

Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

Surveillance has become a growing feature of daily life. In fact, it is more appropriate to analyze the culture of surveillance, rather than address exclusively the violations committed by the corporate-surveillance state.

In this instance, the surveillance and security state is one that not only listens, watches and gathers massive amounts of information through data mining necessary for identifying consumer populations but also acculturates the public into accepting the intrusion of surveillance technologies and privatized commodified values into all aspects of their lives.

read  all :: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state

thanks to PMQ

Open Letter

We, the undersigned, hereby call on our governments, national parliaments and the European institutions to:

Reject unjustified and disproportionate surveillance measures.
Ensure respect for the fundamental right to privacy and informational self-determination.
Prioritise both rights on a national and an international level as well as via appropriate measures in the General Data Protection Regulation, the upcoming Directive and corresponding rules for the European institutions.
Ensure high levels of protection of privacy and redress mechanisms against surveillance measures by third countries in international agreements.
Ensure that personal data that are collected and processed in the EU may only be transferred to authorities or organisations in third countries via mutual legal assistance treaties that contain adequate legal safeguards.
Ensure the right to confidentiality by ensuring the integrity of information technology systems.
Ensure that international cooperation between law enforcement, judicial bodies and intelligence services is not used to circumvent legal protections of fundamental rights.
Immediately disclose all treaties, laws and activities affecting the right to informational self-determination of individuals residing in the respective state and the EU.
Legally and financially penalise the violation of privacy of individuals by domestic companies as well as by non-EU states and companies residing in non-EU countries.
Introduce an obligation to issue individual notifications to individuals affected by the enforcement of personal computer surveillance measures, whether conducted by law enforcement authorities or intelligence services.
Actively promote free and open source projects for digital self-defence and promote the use of this technology.
Abandon all surveillance measures currently taking place outside the rule of law.
Guarantee legal protections for whistleblowers who expose social grievances, misconduct or illegal activities.

Sources:

Dox:

• The Day we fight back ::  https://thedaywefightback.org/international/

• StopSurveillance.org with the text /resources:: The International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance :: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text

• First Look Media :: new investigative journalism website ::

• “Our central mission is to hold the most powerful governmental and corporate factions accountable, and to do so, we will report on a wide and varied range of issues,” writes Greenwald, Poitras and Scahill in their introductory post.

• Edward Snowden’s interview :http://www.human-highway.org/2014edward-snowden-interview: (in English)

• The Petition/Open Letter :: http://www.stopsurveillance.org/  to Europe. In essence also obviously significant for the USA and other countries.

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Cracker Singer Apologizes To Neil Young After Bandmate’s Attack Over HuffPost Piracy Article

Cracker’s David Lowery issued an apology yesterday to Neil Young after bandmate Johnny Hickman slammed Young for his stance about music piracy.

In a Huffington Post article Monday, Young was quoted comparing the piracy of music to being the new version of radio.

“It doesn’t affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio,” he said. “I look at the radio as gone… Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around… That’s the radio. If you really want to hear it, let’s make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”

Young’s comments were taken from the D: Dive Into Media conference he appeared at this past January.

According to Jambands.com, Hickman took to the band’s Twitter account to take it to Young.

“Fuck you Neil Young, I love most of your music (some of it sucks ass) that you made millions upon millions of dollars on,” Hickman tweeted. The full statement has been removed but Jambands.com had the full statement which continued: “…you own property all over the world, have 50 antique gas guzzling cars and a full recording studio..you have no say in the matter NOW you rich, greedy old asshole. We hundredaire working class musicians DO!”

…read more on huffingtonpost.ca/

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