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I began donating to the ACLU last November 9, and I remain happy with that decision. They are currently bringing the Carpenter v. U.S. case to the Supreme Court, and the way this case turns out could have a major impact on the privacy of all Americans who have cellular phones¹. At issue, roughly speaking, is the fact that U.S. government—as well as state and local law enforcement agencies—are currently able to access the location data generated by your cellular ...

In a bit of epic trolling, Bloomberg's editorial board published a piece¹ this week praising Trump and Congress for their efforts to continue permitting ISP's to sell your personal browsing data for a profit. The specious arguments drip with willful stupidity from the first sentence, and the piece just gets more dumb as it goes on:

On one issue, at least, President Donald Trump has united the country: More than 70 percent of the public -- across political parties -- oppose a bill he ...

The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to roll back FCC protections enacted this past October which would prevent your broadband ISP from selling your browsing history to advertisers. This news may have slipped through the cracks in all the hubbub over the health care bill, but it's a troubling vote in its own right and it deserves your attention if you are concerned about privacy.

neveragain.tech is a pledge signed by employees of tech companies who are concerned about the immigration policies of the incoming presidential administration. The signatories of the pledge are committing themselves to honor safe and sane data retention practices, and generally not to take part in facilitating the creation of databases used for identifying individuals for targeting by the US government on grounds of race, religion, or national provenance. As of the moment I'm writing this, 2,288 tech employees have signed on. I have also signed it. Since I'm the managing partner of the LLC that runs LinkLocker, it's safe to say that our company as a whole has committed to these precepts and practices.