US Appeals Court upholds FBI's NSLs (National Security Letters) and gag orders

2017-07-17 Thread Rachael
tl;dr This is a bad legal ruling for privacy and due process in the United States. The US Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco issued a ruling declaring that gag orders on the FBI's NSLs (National Security Letters) are completely legal. Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/article/us-

Re: Welcome to Anarchast

2017-07-13 Thread Rachael
All this talk of Riseup being anti-capitalist and people being selective about their invites is rather amusing. Maybe people on this listserve are not aware that Riseup.net (along with LEAP) are listed as receiving over $250,000 USD from government funding. And that was only the funding which coul

Facebook, Google, US government, etc lobbying EU to accept horrible Privacy Shield deal

2017-07-12 Thread Rachael
Link to article http://piratetimes.net/privacy-shield-the-american-lobbying-invasion/ PRIVACY SHIELD: THE AMERICAN LOBBYING INVASION July 12, 2017 · by Rachael Tackett · in Pirate Topic It is difficult to know the true extent to which American corporate interests and the US government continue

Problems with Privacy Shield records and NSA mass surveillance

2017-06-29 Thread Rachael
suggestions or recommendations, please email me at ract...@mail.com I am also looking for volunteers to file public records requests in the EU and Switzerland for Privacy Shield documents. If you are interested, also email ract...@mail.com Regards, Rachael Tackett Attached below is a discussi

RE: RiseUp Warrant Canary Falls

2017-04-09 Thread Rachael Tackett
A document, which I public records requested, shows LEAP and RiseUp getting a quarter million dollars from the Digital Defenders Partnership, which is funded by US government and several European governments. The governments of Netherlands and Sweden refused to give me all the records. Sweden cited

Repost - Open Technology Fund's Classified Audit

2017-02-26 Thread Rachael Tackett
Not sure why my previous messages failed to go through.   Open Technology Fund (OTF) is the US government program, which pretends not to be a government program. OTF has financed projects such as Tor Project, Signal, SubgraphOS, etc. Several years ago, the State Dept.'s Inspector General's Offic

Open Technology Fund's Classified Audit

2017-02-26 Thread Rachael Tackett
Open Technology Fund (OTF) is the US government program, which pretends not to be a government program. OTF has financed projects such as Tor Project, Signal, SubgraphOS, etc. Several years ago, the State Dept.'s Inspector General's Office investigated and found out that Open Technology Fund was br

NSA Contractors Join Privacy Shield

2017-02-21 Thread Rachael Tackett
The Privacy Shield framework is supposed to protect companies that transfer personal data from the EU to the US. The US promised the EU that it would provide data protection and put some limits on the US' mass surveillance. Some members of the EU parliament are calling for Privacy Shield to be susp