Privacy Matters

The CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, gave what reporters thought was going to be a press conference today, marking the first substantive remarks from the powerful gun advocacy organization since the horrific murders of 26 people in Newtown, CT last week. 

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The next time you're at a sports arena or an airport, take a look around to see if there are signs that indicate you are being monitored.

Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey (D) has introduced legislation that aims to limit privacy violations resulting from the incoming domestic drone invasion. A statement on the Congressman's website reads in part:

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Today’s horrendous news that a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut killed at least 27 people, as many as 18 of them children, brings to eight the number of mass killings in the United States just this year.

Who is opposed to laws that would ban or limit people or institutions from secretly tracking your movements via your mobile phone? The Department of Justice and the Software and Information Industry Association, for starters.