by Joe Schaeffer | Apr 18, 2024 | Articles, Opinion, Privacy & Tech
A new trend seems to be emerging in America’s most notoriously progressive cities. In Washington, DC, authorities appear eager to grant police advanced surveillance powers over their residents – for their own good, of course. But the nation’s capital...
by James Fite | Apr 13, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The US House of Representatives renewed authorization for Section 702 of FISA yesterday, April 12. But there’s a catch – well, a couple, actually. After two days of legislative lockdown thanks to a rebellion in the House GOP, an agreement was reached to push the bill...
by James Fite | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The annual renewal of a controversial government surveillance program has been set aside – for now. After much debate over warrant requirements, Republicans in the US House of Representatives had revealed a new package to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 24, 2023 | Articles, Intelligence, Opinion
Are China and the United States locked in a relationship like the two spy characters in Mad magazine’s wordless comic strip? Unfortunately, the stakes between Beijing and Washington are not satire. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has upped the ante with...
by Dave Patterson | Jul 11, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
Ordinary citizens are under perpetual closed-circuit television surveillance in stores, on street corners, and in most commercial and governmental office buildings. Now French President Emmanuel Macron is invading the daily lives of his people more intrusively than...