Topic Tuesday #82 2014/02/11 - "The Day We Fight Back"

https://thedaywefightback.org/

It sounds grand doesn't it? But really, "The Day We Fight Back" is not a grand idea. It is being fed up enough to call your legislators and demand privacy and a free and open internet. Our lives are very much controlled by the free flow of information. Health Records, Credit Statements and Checks, E-Commerce, Webmail, Chat records, things you like, or search for. These things should be private. They are not, for the most part. There is a torrent of F.U.D. (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) about what the NSA and as we continue to learn, other nations and organizations, collect and utilize about us, against us. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been fighting the good fight of net neutrality and freedom for quite some time. They have compiled some interesting and frightening things about what the NSA has been up to.
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
But really none of this should come as a surprise. We Americans have lost so much of our freedom in the name of "safety" since 9/11; gradually enough to not realize how much we have lost.
The law has not kept pace with the technology that we live with. It is time for better guidelines.
Join in the fight, https://thedaywefightback.org/ #stopthensa? @SenSchumer @ChuckGrassley