Under CISPA, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, others can't promise to protect your privacy

bartlebysociety:

An amendment to CISPA failed to pass. This now means major tech and Web companies will be disallowed under law to promise to protect your privacy.

Anonymous Calls for Internet Blackout Internet Monday to Protest CISPA  This Monday 22nd 

Anonymous site: http://anoninsiders.net/cipsa-1702/

The scary bill as explained on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act

 Clear 4th Amendment violation.

(via pod313)

Source: bartlebysociety

Expunging Google

Recently, Google announced their decision to shut down Google Reader. This latest step in opposition to an open web in favour of Google+ has led me to a decision of my own. It’s time to expunge Google from my life, to the fullest extent practical.
It’s not because Google chose to shut down a free service they were offering, or because of privacy concerns. It’s because I think that Google is now working against the potential of the open Internet, and because I think that one gets a better product when one is the customer as well as the user. …

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