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Jack A. Smith :
Obama defends NSA spying on Americans
Senator Obama pledged to dismantle the most intrusive aspects of Bush’s surveillance programs. Instead, President Obama secretly allowed those programs to expand. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | January 29, 2014 When he ran for the presidency … Continue reading →
Steve Russell : Big Brother in the Data Mines
Cover of the first Signet Classics edition of George Orwell’s 1984. Image from Vintage Paperback Archive. We’re talking yottabytes here: Big Brother in the data mines We’ve been living for some time in the world set out in Moore’s Law, which … Continue reading →
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