It’s A Trap – CLibertyC

European link tax, compulsory copyright scanning sent back to the drawing board

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 6, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a 'link tax', by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. Article 13 adds rules that make tech companies responsible for ensuring any copyrighted material is not spread over their platforms. Those rules could force technology companies to scan through everything their users post and check it doesn't include copyrighted material."

N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 2, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."

Bill Bonner: Trump’s Trade Deals Are a Futile Conceit

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:June 25, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results."

Jogger imprisoned for 2 weeks after accidentally entering U.S.

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:June 24, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit."

Google AI uses electronic health records to predict your death with 95% accuracy

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:June 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Google applied artificial intelligence to a vast amount of data from more than 216,000 adult patients hospitalized for at least 24 hours each in two medical centers."

Jacob Hornberger: Tyranny and Gun Control in Venezuela

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:May 29, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"What the Venezuelan people are teaching Americans is that disarmament is a mistake that a nation can make only once."

E-Driver’s Licenses Enable Round-the-Clock Surveillance

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:May 20, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops."

A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:March 14, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"A dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the data is stored."

More Cops in Schools Is the Wrong Answer to Mass Shootings

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:February 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The ubiquitous presence of law enforcement in public schools has led to serious infringements of students' Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, and it has increased the likelihood that minor disputes between students will escalate into criminal justice issues."

California to create a state-run bank for pot businesses to ease tax collection

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:January 31, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Store owners, growers and distributors are being forced to use cash because most banks won’t open accounts for them while the federal government still considers marijuana illegal. As revenues inevitably increase, they will be lugging larger stacks of 50s and 100s to the tax collector, a situation that everyone agrees makes businesses vulnerable to thievery, violent crime, money laundering and extortion."