The Cybersecurity Bill CISA: Big Brother Just Got Bigger

Friday, April 3, 2015
By Paul Martin

Ted Baumann
Activist Post.com
Friday, April 3, 2015

Yesterday I fell for an April Fools’ joke for the first time (that I can remember, at least).

A blog post, ostensibly from Georgia Tech, announced a new program to award credit to students who use their smartphones while logged on to the campus Wi-Fi system. “Every website visit, post, tweet, photo, and yes, even yaks are available and tied to a user,” it said. “Grades are assigned using machine learning that has been trained to recognize intellectually valid content. The student receives a monthly report of their progress. The more they use the Internet, the faster they graduate.”

At first I thought, “So much for digital privacy on campus.” When I realized I’d been had, I chuckled, seeing my bamboozlement as a by-product of age.

But I soon realized that my gullibility wasn’t funny at all. Instead, it’s grim proof that nothing about our digital world, no matter how outrageous, seems unusual anymore. Every day reveals a new abuse of digital privacy, each more insane than the last.

In fact, one of the biggest privacy outrages in a long while is about to pass through our supposedly “hopelessly divided” Congress….

Priorities, Priorities…

The Rest…HERE

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