About Face (Recognition) | EFFector 36.5

1 week 2 days ago

There are a lot of updates in the fight for our freedoms online, from a last-minute reauthorization bill to expand Section 702 (tell your senators to vote NO on the bill here!), a new federal consumer data privacy law (we deserve better!), and a recent draft from the FCC to reinstate net neutrality (you can help clean it up!).

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EFFECTOR 36.5.- About Face (Recognition)

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[B] 現在の気候変動、危機的なのか、どう対応すべきなのか 落合栄一郎

1 week 2 days ago
報道機関その他の情報伝達手段が大変上達し、自分たちではない土地での異常と思われる気象変化による旱魃、洪水などが直ちに、しかも目に見える形で報道されるようになったため、気候変動の危険性が強調され、しかもそれを受け取る側が深刻に受け止めがちになっています。以前は、そうした報道は、新聞その他のやり方で報道されるばかりで、深刻さは伝わりにくかった。では、現在、報道機関が煽るように言っている気候変動は、本当に人類の将来を危険に晒せるようなものなのであろうか。
日刊ベリタ

[B] 経済安保情報保護法案、新聞労連が反対声明  記者活動、報道の自由も抑圧のおそれ

1 week 2 days ago
「重要経済安保情報保護・活用法案」、いわゆる経済安保にかかわる秘密保護法が一転して賛成に転じた立憲民主党の動きもあって国会での審議があわただしく進んでいる。そうした中で新聞労連が4月15日、反対声明を出した。同法案は新聞雑誌、放送、ネット記者などジャーナリストの取材、執筆活動にも影響する内容を含んでいる。もちろん日刊ベリタも例外ではない。(大野和興)
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Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion

1 week 2 days ago

We all deserve privacy in our communications. Part of that is imposing limits upon the government’s ability to collect and access them. That’s why it’s critical to reform Section 702, the mass surveillance law that creates an end run around our constitutional rights and a back door for the government to query our communications. In the last few weeks, there have been multiple attempts to reauthorize this power with varying levels of reform and compromise. Nearly half of the U.S. House of Representatives supported requiring the government to obtain court approval before accessing Americans’ communications in the government’s Section 702 databases—but at the last minute, the pro-mass surveillance side passed a bill which actually expands, rather than reforms these powers. That’s why we need you to tell the Senate to stop it!

What happened: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire on April 19. The House of Representatives just passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), a reauthorization bill that greatly increases the scope of information the government can collect under Section 702 , and allows the government to use this unaccountable and out-of-control mass surveillance authority to spy on hopeful immigrants and asylum seekers. This move abandons any real argument that this is for terrorism or intelligence only.

The U.S. Senate will likely try to advance this terrible bill this week – a bill that Sen. Ron Wyden called “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” He’s right.

Tell your Senators to vote NO on the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Our call tool will make it easy for you to call your Senator—it only takes a moment.

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