Monthly Archives: August 2013

Jeffrey Tucker: Canada: Land of the Freer?

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“With QuickBt, consumers are buying bitcoins and then transferring them to merchants. No harm, no real money exchange as traditionally defined, no sneaky financial trickery. It’s just business, and the Canadian regulators have said: it’s not our business. Meanwhile, just south of the border, regulators are putting the fear of government into every conceivable crypto-currency merchant. Congress is issuing warnings. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is exacting fees. The feds are driving services out of existence. It’s so bad that Bitcoin advocates are reduced to Stockholm-like begging: ‘Please regulate us as soon as possible.'”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/bitcoin-is-the-new-napster-and-thats-a-good-thing

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NJ: Text Recipients Can Be Held Liable In Texting-And-Driving Accidents

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“Drivers in New Jersey were left stunned, after state Appeals Court judges found that when a driver is texting and causes an accident, the recipient of the texts can also be held liable for negligence. As CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez reported Tuesday night, the decision stemmed from a 2009 accident where a 17-year-old girl texted a friend just before that friend crashed his pickup truck into a Morris County couple on a motorcycle.  A state Appeals Court ruled ‘that a person sending text messages has a duty not to text someone who is driving if the texter knows, or has special reason to know, the recipient will view the text while driving.'”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/27/n-j-court-text-recipients-can-be-held-liable-in-texting-and-driving-accidents/

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Bitcoin offers privacy—as long as you don’t cash out or spend it

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“Using special algorithms, the researchers were able to associate large numbers of seemingly anonymous bitcoins addresses with certain major services such as exchanges and payment processors, said Sarah Meiklejohn, a doctoral candidate in computer science at UC San Diego, who assisted in the research. For example, they linked more than 500,000 Bitcoin addresses with Mt. Gox, a popular exchange in Japan where users buy and sell bitcoins. ‘We saw a lot of people deposit into Silk Road directly from their Mt. Gox address,’ Meiklejohn said. In those cases, law enforcement would have minimal work to obtain the name of a user if they presented a legal order to Mt. Gox.”

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047608/bitcoin-offers-privacy-as-long-as-you-dont-cash-out-or-spend-it.html

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American anti-virus mogul McAfee warns Canadians about government spying

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“As an anti-virus software tycoon at the head of McAfee Security, he says his early clients ranged from the CIA to the American navy and air force. ‘The first six years of McAfee, 90 per cent of our income came from the government. The First Gulf War I donated $40 million worth of software to the U.S. Army,’ he says.  McAfee said intelligence officials were worried that encryption technology would get out of the U.S. and into the wrong hands. McAfee also says the growth of electronic currencies like Bitcoin is unstoppable, despite efforts by governments to curb their use. ‘It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.'”

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/american-anti-virus-mogul-mcafee-warns-canadians-about-government-spying-1.1430142

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Jeffrey Tucker: We’re All Edward Snowden Now

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Jeffrey Tucker: Bitcoin and E-commerce

“In the course of only a few decades, everything unraveled. The monopoly over communication that the government once maintained had been completely smashed. This situation has persisted for about 15 years — a near-anarchist paradise of human sharing and interaction through technological innovation. What’s going on today is really the reaction and response by the elites. They want their power and control back. They are trying to get it through the oldest form of government control surveillance and the blackmail that comes with it. It’s the tactic guards used to control prisoners. It’s the tactic government is using to fight its way back toward having control over our lives.”

http://lfb.org/today/were-all-edward-snowden-now/

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Freedom Requires Whistleblowers: The Importance of Transparency

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Freedom Requires Whistleblowers: The Importance of Transparency

“Does it bother you that government agencies are able to spy on everything you do online? The power we give to one set of leaders continues to the next, whether you agree with them or not. Prof. James Otteson says we should be concerned about government overreach. The government should be accountable to the citizens, not the other way around. Whistleblowers play an important role in making sure the people know when the government is doing things it shouldn’t do.”

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Facebook to pay 614,000 users $15 each over privacy concerns

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“A lawsuit that accused Facebook of misappropriating users’ images ended with a settlement on Monday.  The agreement states that the social media site has to pay approximately 614,000 Facebook users $15 each for using their information for advertising purposes. While approximately 150 million Facebook users’ images and likenesses were allegedly used to promote products and services through the Sponsored Stories program, only users who entered a claim form by May 2, 2013, were eligible to receive settlement funds.  As part of the settlement, Facebook will give users greater information about and control over how they are featured in the Sponsored Stories.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/facebook-to-pay-614000-users-15-each-over-privacy-concerns/

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Sales Of Public Data To Marketers Can Mean Big $$ For Governments

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“Spokesperson Andrew Cole confirms the Secretary of State sells business information for monetary amounts ranging from $200 to $12,000, depending on frequency and amount of information requested.  The Secretary of State also sold voter registration information — including names, addresses and political party affiliation of voters — for $58,000, last year.  The Denver Clerk and Recorder made $32,000 last year selling home sale data.  It happens in college, too. The University of Colorado Boulder buys names from the SAT for 33 cents each and names from the ACT for 34 cents each. CU sells student information to private meal plans and storage companies for $15,000 a year.”

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/08/26/sales-of-public-data-to-marketers-can-mean-big-for-governments/

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It Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities All Over The United States

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“More than 50 large U.S. cities have adopted ‘anti-camping’ or ‘anti-food sharing’ laws in recent years, and police are strictly enforcing these laws.  Sometimes the goal appears to be to get the homeless people to go away.  Apparently heartless politicians believe that if the homeless can’t get any more free food and if they keep getting thrown into prison for ‘illegal camping’ they will eventually decide to go somewhere else where they won’t be hassled so much.  This is yet another example of how heartless our society is becoming.  The middle class is being absolutely shredded and poverty is absolutely exploding, but meanwhile the hearts of many Americans are growing very cold.”

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/it-is-illegal-to-feed-the-homeless-in-cities-all-over-the-united-states

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A Neutral Look At Police Brutality

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