False allegations spark radical changes

After being detained at an airport as a terrorist suspect, a Bangladeshi-born American decided to put his whole life online for the US government to watch. Read the Wired story of how Hasan Elahi is beating the government at its own game. Elahi, an artist and Rutgers professor, documents his activities, meals and travel at his website TrackingTransience.net.

Whistleblower talks about AT&T's spying

I've written several pieces previously about the Electronic Frontier Foundation's ongoing class action lawsuit against AT&T for spying on Americans' phone calls and emails. In this eye-opening report, Wired talks to AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein. The relevations about the telecommunications giant's complicity with the National Security Agency are shocking, but sadly, no longer surprising.

Poster from Micah Wright's Propaganda Remix Project.

Comments

[Willow Grace]

This is one of my big concerns. Government surveillance. It's unnerving. Yet, as you said, sadly not surprising. :(

[AscenderRisesAbove]

ohhhh that is very interesting. thanks for the heads up. though I do worry about the backlash people might have to go through for being bold enough to stand up

[Peter]

You may want to read this related article from the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html

- an article by Naomi Wolf

Quote (from point 6):

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"Professor Walter F Murphy is emeritus of Princeton University; he is one of the foremost constitutional scholars in the nation and author of the classic Constitutional Democracy.

Murphy is also a decorated former marine, and he is not even especially politically liberal.

But on March 1 this year, he was denied a boarding pass at Newark, "because I was on the Terrorist Watch list".

"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.

"I explained," said Murphy, "that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution."

"That'll do it," the man said.

Anti-war marcher? Potential terrorist. Support the constitution? Potential terrorist.
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Shocking...

[kristen robinson]

I was intriqued when I first read about this earlier in the week it is an odd feeling to think each coversation one has potentially is not their own.

XOX
Kristen