Comments on: From the Comments – Net Neutrality Vote Tomorrow http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/10/21/from-the-comments-net-neutrality-vote-tomorrow/ The official blog of KVNU's For the People Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tim Carter http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/10/21/from-the-comments-net-neutrality-vote-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-101547 Tim Carter Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:38:02 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4752#comment-101547 Kind of off topic, but privacy is a big issue that Americans need to address before its too late. Some are on top of it, but it affects us all whether we know it or not: "The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the FBI is not legally entitled to remotely activate the system and secretly use it to snoop on passengers, because doing so would render it inoperable during an emergency." from here: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-5109435.html Kind of off topic, but privacy is a big issue that Americans need to address before its too late. Some are on top of it, but it affects us all whether we know it or not:

“The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the FBI is not legally entitled to remotely activate the system and secretly use it to snoop on passengers, because doing so would render it inoperable during an emergency.”

from here:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-5109435.html

]]> By: Tim Carter http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/10/21/from-the-comments-net-neutrality-vote-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-101316 Tim Carter Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:01:31 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4752#comment-101316 The internet should be wide open for everyone. Even the CIA to monitor blogs like KVNU FTP: "Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords." "In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day." From here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/ The internet should be wide open for everyone. Even the CIA to monitor blogs like KVNU FTP:

“Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.”

“In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.”

From here:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/

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