Monday, February 13th, 2012
Stephan: The reach of DHS, even now is Orwellian -- and I will probably be put on some list for saying this. As a culture we are going to have to decide whether we will surrender to constant surveillance, or whether we are going to assert our personal liberties in a politically effective manner.
The only counterweight to this toxic trend is massive voter turnout on behalf of programs and politicians that support social wellness. The key is to focus on social wellness, based on data not ideology of theology.
A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Report.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently obtained close to 300 pages of documents, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, detailing the federal agency’s ‘intelligence gathering
