Privacy Matters

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Massachusetts is one of seven states planning to join a pilot program that would involve the transfer of extremely private student information to corporations. 

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Do we need so-called intelligence fusion centers? A senate subcommittee for investigations report published in 2012 pointed out that the centers are extremely costly, duplicative of other federal-local intelligence and terrorism efforts, and have been shown to infringe on civil liberties. 

Two articles in today’s press illuminate just how far the Department of Justice is straying from the Fourth Amendment when it comes to electronic surveillance.

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The FBI says 19 year old Cambridge resident Robel Phillipos lied to them. If convicted of making false statements to federal agents, the young Mr. Phillipos would face a maximum sentence of 8 years in federal prison. 

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Drones and helicopters are totally the same thing, so we don't need any new laws to protect us from drone spying! Helicopters can already spy on us from the sky, so no big deal!