Under Watch? |
The U.S. Embassy 'bought another interception tool (something that will receive all the traffic for Colombia's ISPs).' |
No wonder typewriters are coming back.
Since this monitoring of Colombian residents is being done by the U.S., a foreign nation, there seems to be no oversight or privacy protection here.
Is it just me, or is it really mind-boggling that, in a time of peace, our communications can be read over by strangers? And in the name of the failed War on Drugs? If the government suddenly decided to read whatever letters people still write on paper and stick into envelopes, you can bet there'd be protests. But we seem to be resigned to being monitored on-line.
Meanwhile, over in Venezuela, the state communications company CONATEL is reportedly helping President Maduro's regime identify critical Twitter users so that they can be arrested and imprisoned
Finally, El Tiempo reports that Instagram deleted this tender, innocent photo of three indigenous Wounaan women because their breasts are uncovered.
The deleted photo of three Wounaan women, by photographer Héctor Fabio Zamora. |
1 comment:
In today's day is not easy to hide, there's cameras all over the world ,satellites,cameras. etc,etc like gigantic federal concentration camp, I think .
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