Read ‘em and weep.
1. Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications & Administration Seeks Easy Access To Americans’ Private Online Communications
The Obama administration is seeking to expand the government’s ability to conduct invasive surveillance online, according to a report in The New York Times today. According to the report, the administration is expected to submit legislation to Congress early next year that would mandate that all online communications services use technologies that would make it easier for the government to collect private communications and decode encrypted messages that Americans send over texting platforms, BlackBerries, social networking sites and other “peer to peer” communications software.
2. Robert Gibbs, hypocritical transparency crusader
