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Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better

General NewsAir Pollution, Communication, Driverless, Food, Free, Journeys, Privacy, Public, Traffic, Transport, vehiclesuperadmin

Dec 2016

Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city.” I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.

It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.

Read the Full Article: Source – Forbes
Time For Truth: (Forbes) – Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better

Baltimore’s aerial surveillance continues unchecked

General NewsAdvocates, Baltimore, Bloomberg, Defense, Hearing, lawmakers, officials, Police, Privacy, spy, surveillance, vehiclesuperadmin

Dec 2016

in late October, a group of Maryland legislators met with police officials, attorneys, privacy advocates, and policy analysts to discuss creating a legal framework to govern aerial surveillance programs such as the one the Baltimore Police Department had been using to track vehicles and individuals through the city since January.

“What, if anything, are other states doing to address this issue?” Joseph Vallerio, the committee’s chairman, asked the panel.

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Time For Truth: (Bloomberg) – Baltimore's aerial surveillance continues unchecked

‘Extreme surveillance’ becomes UK law with barely a whimper

General Newscounter terrorism, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Internet, NSA, Police, Privacy, surveillance, uk securitysuperadmin

Nov 2016

A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside.

The Investigatory Powers Act, passed on Thursday, legalises a whole range of tools for snooping and hacking by the security services unmatched by any other country in western Europe or even the US.

Read the Full Article: Source – The Guardian
Time For Truth: (The Guardian) – 'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper

Pornography sites face UK block under enhanced age controls

General Newscensorship, Child protection, Children, Internet, Internet safety, Pornography, Privacysuperadmin

Nov 2016

Pornography websites that fail to implement stringent age verification controls could be blocked from British users after MPs forced the government to strengthen planned measures to prevent children accessing such content.

Read the Full Article: Source – The Guardian
Time For Truth: (The Guardian) – Pornography sites face UK block under enhanced age controls