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		<title>Tech quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/12/04/tech-quote-of-the-day-63/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carrier IQ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We do recognize the power and value of this data. We’re very aware that this information is sensitive. It’s a treasure trove. &#8211; Andrew Coward, chief marketing officer of Carrier IQ.  The company stands accused of capturing extensive data from &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/12/04/tech-quote-of-the-day-63/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No mobile phone privacy (updated x3)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/11/30/no-mobile-phone-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=15848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported in Wired, a new report (together with a related video) shows how software called Carrier IQ is secretly installed on millions of cellphones, with no notice to the users. The software seems clearly to log virtually all actions &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/11/30/no-mobile-phone-privacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy victory</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/11/17/privacy-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/11/17/privacy-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=15613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A US District Court Judge in Texas has ruled that obtaining cellphone records without a warrant is unconstitutional. In her ruling, Judge Lynn N. Hughes states: The records would show the date, time, called number, and location of the telephone &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/11/17/privacy-victory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you ask for</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/30/be-careful-what-you-ask-for/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/30/be-careful-what-you-ask-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hasan M. Elahi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hasan M. Elahi has a fascinating op-ed in today&#8217;s New York Times. He describes how in 2002, despite being an American citizen, he was stopped in Detroit upon entering the country and grilled for hours by Federal agents who believed &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/30/be-careful-what-you-ask-for/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Secret laws, secret memos</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/10/secret-laws-secret-memos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laws in the United States should not be secret. Laws should be subject to judicial review. Operational details of military actions need not be disclosed but the law and rules governing the military, the Department of Justice or any other &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/10/secret-laws-secret-memos/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FISA constitutional challenge survives</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/22/fisa-constitutional-challenge-survives/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/22/fisa-constitutional-challenge-survives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A constitutional challenge to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has survived an en banc rehearing in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  The challenge was brought by human rights groups, lawyers and journalists who claim to have been wiretapped &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/22/fisa-constitutional-challenge-survives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/24/privacy-quote-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/24/privacy-quote-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fiction that the vast majority of the American population consents to warrantless government access to the records of a significant share of their movements by &#8216;choosing&#8217; to carry a cell phone must be rejected. In light of drastic developments &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/24/privacy-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/14/free-speech-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the UK is not an Arab country sitting next to Egypt we are going to hear a lot of complaining about social media. You&#8217;ll hear that none of this would have happened if it were not for social media. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/14/free-speech-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Patriot Act&#8217;s secret interpretations</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/03/the-patriot-acts-secret-interpretations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Senators have claimed that the Federal government has developed and is using a very broad interpretation of the Patriot Act&#8216;s provisions.  They claim it is so broad that it supports massive surveillance of Americans far larger than a plain &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/03/the-patriot-acts-secret-interpretations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>H.R. 1981: here we go again (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/29/h-r-1981-here-we-go-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The House Judiciary has passed a bill that is yet another assault on privacy. And, consistent with past practice, such bills are always named so as to produce a compliant public response. Proponents of the H.R. 1981 bill have titled &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/29/h-r-1981-here-we-go-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FBI opens probe of News Corporation</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/15/fbi-opens-probe-of-news-corporation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More trouble for the Murdochs: In the U.S., the FBI opened a probe into whether employees of News Corp. might have hacked or attempted to hack into the private calls, voice-mail messages or call records of 9/11 victims or their &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/15/fbi-opens-probe-of-news-corporation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch headed for a fall</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/13/rupert-murdoch-headed-for-a-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Cassidy, writing for The New Yorker, summarizes the current state of affairs for the Murdoch family: The question marks hang over the Murdochs, not News Corp. In the coming months, both Rupert and James will be called before a &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/13/rupert-murdoch-headed-for-a-fall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>News of the screwed</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/13/news-of-the-screwed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<title>The secret &#8220;Patriot&#8221; act (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/26/the-secret-patriot-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) says that the Patriot Act that we all think we know about is bad. But even worse is the secret Patriot Act. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/26/the-secret-patriot-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FBI defends ISPs, telecoms for warrantless wiretaps</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/12/fbi-defends-isps-telecoms-for-warrantless-wiretaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably not surprising (although it is depressing) but the FBI is going to court to protect telecoms and ISPs from having to disclose their participation in warrantless wiretaps in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU. Why? Because &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/12/fbi-defends-isps-telecoms-for-warrantless-wiretaps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Politcal quote of the day 2</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/politcal-quote-of-the-day-2-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For civil libertarians, the legacy of bin Laden is most troubling because it shows how the greatest injuries from terror are often self-inflicted. Bin Laden’s twisted notion of success was not the bringing down of two buildings in New York &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/politcal-quote-of-the-day-2-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Did bin Laden win?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/03/did-bin-laden-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=12992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden is now dead. Good. But is it possible that he lost the battle but won the war? I think so. The changes that this country has put itself through since 9/11 are awesome and negative. Radley Belko &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/03/did-bin-laden-win/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants copyright enforcement</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/17/obama-wants-copyright-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama White House, which cannot seem to be able to convict any of the bankers that almost took down our entire economy, has issued a 20 page proposal seeking to greatly ratchet up law enforcement activity in alleged intellectual &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/17/obama-wants-copyright-enforcement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civil liberties quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/19/civil-liberties-quote-of-the-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=11957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the familiar trope of &#8220;balancing privacy and security&#8221; is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because while there are clearly sometimes tradeoffs between the two, it often seems that the zero-sum rhetoric of &#8220;balancing&#8221; leads people to view &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/19/civil-liberties-quote-of-the-day-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wiretaps built-in</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/18/wiretaps-built-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=11944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal government is pushing for new laws that, in essence, would require that all communications technology would have to include functionality making wiretapping easily available to the government. The Feds have been working on this plan, called &#8220;Going Dark&#8221;. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/18/wiretaps-built-in/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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