Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter – Issue 67, October 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 67, October 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 71,727 other activists. That’s 1,011 more than last month! View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/october Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

Marcus Aurelius: N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens

New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. 1 N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens By James Risen and Laura Poitras WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations …

Noam Chomsky: US and Canada Virtually Expelled from South America

On Morales and Snowden, US & Canada Virtually Being Expelled from the Hemisphere On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace. Morales was flying home …

Marcus Aurelius: NSA Rejecting All US Citizen FOIA Requests — While FISA Court, Which Has No Jurisdiction Domestically, Goes Stasi

Daily Kos: NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens NYT:  In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers Of N.S.A. See Also: GCHQ Surveillance: The Power of Britain’s Data Vacuum Rickard Falkvinge: Sweden Works for NSA Which Works for Israel, Against Russia and Also Europe? Snowden Interview: NSA ‘In Bed Together with the Germans’