Amash Amendment Fails 205-217
In a House vote late yesterday, July 24th, 217 representatives went on record supporting the massive and once-secret National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program recently made public by NSA...
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What did YOU do during summer vacation?
U.S. Captiol by Jeffrey via flickr. Congress is now in a five-week recess. Some pundits are asking recess from what? because this 113th Congress has passed even fewer bills in its first months between...
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Fighting for privacy: My time at the anti-NSA rally
Last week, ALA Press Officer Jazzy Wright marched in the Stop Watching Us privacy rally, which many say was the largest protest to date against NSA monitoring. Author Margaret Mead once said “Never...
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What’s next for surveillance reform?
Photo by vpickering via flickr. Library advocates can expect 2014 to be a year full of privacy and surveillance issues. The potential for reform of our country’s surveillance laws and programs is...
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Is Snowden A Whistleblower?
Here’s a selected cross-section of op-eds and editorials: Photo by Laura Poitras / Praxis Films YES Edward Snowden Is A Whistleblower The American Civil Liberties Union Opinion – August 1, 2013 Edward...
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House committees break surveillance reform bill logjam; logrolling begins…
Photo from HANDWORK IN WOOD by William Noyes, M.A.; Copyright 1910 After months of outward inactivity, two key Committees of the House of Representatives with previously very different views of what...
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