British Big Brother: He Knows When You’ve Been Good Or Bad November 5, 2006
So be good for goodness sake… The year 1984 was a symbolic date that had everything to do with George Orwell’s 1949 novel of the same name. But Big Brother surveillance societies already are here, have been here, and will continue to be here. We’ve let it happen.
And it’s not just China, a country that actually wants all of their bloggers to register with the government, as if they were some sort of diseased creature harmful to the populace. (Websites there already have to be registered, legally speaking.) Privacy International, a civil liberties watchdog group, …
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Schwarzenegger Terminates California RFID Bill October 6, 2006
Everybody’s writing about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoing the RFID safety legislation tabled by California State senate, who called it premature and potentially hampering later technology that would lead to improved RFID secure technology. Maybe this is my gut reaction for another fake Hollywood politician that I have little respect for, but it really sounds like inverted logic. Of the kind where, if you cover your eyes, then no one can see you.
Are you surprised? I’m not. Not one bit. What does this tell you about him, who purportedly represents the interests of the largest state in …
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