John Gilmore Aug 8, 2014 7:43 PM
US demands citizens show ID to access public transport, courts, buildings
“State driver’s licenses from these 12 states and 2 territories are no
longer good enough, because those states did not sign up for DHS’s
National ID effort”, says DHS. As of July 21, 2014, people from these
states can no longer enter federal property where the public can’t go
(e.g. they can’t get inside NASA facilities); and next year, can’t
enter federal property at all. In 2016, they can’t be passengers on
airplanes.
The refusenik states: Alaska, Arizona, Kentunky, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma,
Washington. Praise these state legislatures & administrations for
refusing to conspire with the feds against their own citizenry to
construct a National ID system. Ask your Congresspeople to repeal the
Real ID Act, which is what DHS is using to try to club these states
into complying.
Of course all of this is unconstitutional; the feds can’t claim
that citizens aren’t allowed to travel, or attend “public” trials,
because they don’t have or show a document. That would be, uh,
I’m groping for the word… Stalinistic? Totalitarian?
It can’t happen here. So what is this DHS page about?
http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/real-id-enforcement-in-brief-20140205.pdf
And this one from the National Conference of State Legislatures?
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/count-down-to-real-id.aspx
John
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China regulates WeChat instant messaging services
China regulates instant messaging services
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government has passed a regulation that will require users of instant messaging services to use real names when registering in an effort to hold users responsible for content.
Targeting China’s 5.8 million public accounts on subscription-based mobile apps such as Tencent’s mobile text and voice messaging service WeChat, the new regulation will take immediate effect.
Registrants of public accounts are obliged to register with real names and reviewed by service providers before being qualified to release information.
First time users will be required to provide their real name, while users who have previously registered accounts will experience limited access to the instant messaging service.
Users shall abide by laws and regulations, the socialist system, national interests, the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, public order, social morality and ensure the authenticity of the information they provide, the regulation states.
Should users of such services break the terms, regulators will warn violators, limit their rights to release information, suspend their renewals or even close their accounts, based on the degree of the violation.
“Cyberspace cannot become a space full of disorder and hostility,” Jiang said.”No country in the world allows dissemination of information of rumors, violence, cheating, sex and terrorism.”
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Targeting China’s 5.8 million public accounts on subscription-based mobile apps such as Tencent’s mobile text and voice messaging service WeChat, the new regulation will take immediate effect.
Registrants of public accounts are obliged to register with real names and reviewed by service providers before being qualified to release information.
First time users will be required to provide their real name, while users who have previously registered accounts will experience limited access to the instant messaging service.
Users shall abide by laws and regulations, the socialist system, national interests, the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, public order, social morality and ensure the authenticity of the information they provide, the regulation states.
Should users of such services break the terms, regulators will warn violators, limit their rights to release information, suspend their renewals or even close their accounts, based on the degree of the violation.
“Cyberspace cannot become a space full of disorder and hostility,” Jiang said.”No country in the world allows dissemination of information of rumors, violence, cheating, sex and terrorism.”
Continue reading “China regulates WeChat instant messaging services”
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Fact Sheet: Senate’s USA FREEDOM ACT OF 2014
http://blogs.rollcall.com/technocrat/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2014/07/USA-FREEDOM-Act-background.pdf USA FREEDOM ACT OF 2014 The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 bans the bulk collection of Americans’private records. • This bill enacts significant reforms to the surveillance authorities that the government has used to justify collecting Americans’ telephone records and Internet metadata in bulk. • It bans bulk collection by requiring the government to narrowly limit the scope of its collection, and makes clear that the government may not collect all information relating to a particular service provider or to a broad geographic region, such as a city, zip code or area code. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 provides the Intelligence Community with the authority it needs to collect phone records in a more targeted manner. To replace bulk collection, the bill authorizes the use of Section215 to obtain two hops of “call detail records” on a daily basis, if the government can demonstrate reasonable, articulable suspicion that its search term is associated with a foreign terrorist organization. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 expands government and company reporting to the public. • The bill requires the government to report the number of individuals whose information has been collected under various authorities; the number of those individuals who were likely Americans; and the number of searches run on Americans in certain databases. It contains exceptions for numbers that are not currently possible to generate. • This bill gives private companies four options for reporting public information about the number of FISA orders and national security letters they receive. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 reforms the FISA Court process. • This bill requires the FISA Court, in consultation with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, to appoint a panel ofspecial advocates who are to advance legal positions in support ofindividual privacy and civil liberties. • This bill enhances mechanisms for appellate review of FISA Court decisions. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 brings Section 215 and National Security Letter nondisclosure orders intocompliance with the First Amendment. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 imposes new privacy protections for FISA pen registers. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 prohibits the use of unlawfully obtained information under Section 702 of FISA. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 extends the June 2015 USA PATRIOT Act sunsets to December 2017, to bring them in line with the current FISA Amendments Act sunset.
Video interview of Snowden by the Guardian
A very interesting interview:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-interview-rusbridger-macaskill
He doesn’t drink, he’s reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesn’t wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, America’s most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah – and why the world remains ‘more dangerous than Orwell imagined’.