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WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study
itwbennett writes "WikiLeaks has launched a new submissions platform, along with a study of the global trade in surveillance products. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told press conference attendees in London that all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users in the crowd were 'screwed.' 'The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right now to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all of those products,' Assange said."
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In response to questions about privacy concerns, various government intelligence organizations from around the world, along with industry representative from Google, Apple, et. al. assembled at the first annual "Nope, Nothing to See Here" Privacy and Security Conference in London. "We are very pleased to report that there is nothing to these silly rumors. We've examined the concerns and determined that there is no need to worry," announced conference chair Janet Napolitano. The conference closed several minutes later, with industry representatives congratulating each other on dealing with all the privacy concerns in their products. "See, I told you there was no need to worry," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, shaking hands with Google CEO Larry Page.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When non government organizations end up doing the tasks governments should be doing, but not doing, and end up getting prosecuted for it.
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for profit journalism has been corrupted so badly by the money and trying to make really rich people even richer that I no longer see them as journalists.
I think your snark detector is broken.
JA describes himself (accurately IMO) as a publisher which is an act of journalism one engages in without being an actual journalist. It's a more general term.
Whenever I look around at our current field of "respected" journalists and then back at JA I don't know how one can come to the conclusion that he's the evil one.
I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm going to get real weird with it. - Frank Reynolds
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
You have the right to privacy; that right is not predicated on being a political dissident. The fact that these companies are undermining that right is what Assange is referring to when he says that you have been screwed.
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The one thing Assange is accomplishing that the EFF (from my perspective anyway) has failed to do is get people talking about these issues. Not geeks on slashdot, but your every day guy. To seriously fight back against erroding privacy, you need a huge mass of people to take a stand, and the problem has always been that most people just don't care.
He may be an attention seeking asshole, but I think we kinda need that.
From your first sentence I thought you were going to point out that the problem with privacy is that you have to be a computer security expert to achieve it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Funny how law enforcement officers were able to do their jobs before mass surveillance technologies became available. You know, back in the days where privacy was guaranteed by the technical limitations of law enforcement? Before wiretapping, before CALEA, before the crypto wars, back when privacy rights were actually respected in free societies, the police were still able to do their jobs.
Law enforcement agencies are more powerful today than at any other point in human history. Why are we not talking about reducing that power?
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