(2017/04/04) Under surveillance from all angles (Privacy Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1092
Today we look at the ways in which both corporate and governmental institutions are looking to gain more and more access to your private data and communications
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Clarifying exactly how much you're getting screwed by internet companies - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 3-25-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: I'm Confused - Handsome Furs
Ch. 4: Act 2: You're getting bought and sold by marketers online - The Benjamin Dixon Show (@TheBpDShow) - Air Date 3-28-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Corporate America - SuperMonkey
Ch. 6: Act 3: The racist application of surveillance laws through history - @theLFshow w @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 2-15-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Privacy - Michael Jackson
Ch. 8: Act 4: Section 702 Is In the Spotlight - On The Media - Air Date 3-24-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Ch. 10: Act 5: FCC Under Trump: Net Neutrality & Internet Freedom Faces New Attack - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 02-14-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Feet to the Fire - the hereafter
Ch. 12: Act 6: Prepare to #SavetheInternet…AGAIN via @FreePress and @EFF - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: Edward Snowden on the Vault 7 leaks - Intercepted (@theintercept) - Air Date 3-15-17
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Thoughts on our complicated health care system - Steve from New York
Ch. 16: Inclusion needs to include the disabled - Annie from Alabama
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 17: Final comments on the need for more solidarity with the disabled
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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EDUCATE YOURSELF
House Republicans Vote to Destroy FCC's Online Privacy Protections (FreePress.net)
Net Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says (The New York Times)
They Attacked Privacy. Net Neutrality is Next. (FreePress.net)
Letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai from Keith Ellison and 30 other Senators on Preserving Net Neutrality (Ellison.house.gov)
Should an FCC Rule Imposing Data Privacy Requirements on Internet Service Providers be Repealed? (Countable.us)
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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | They want this type of granular data on you. |
| 0:02.5 | And so they can say that this is what you are interested in, |
| 0:05.6 | so that that advertisement that pops up on your screen |
| 0:08.9 | can be perfectly designed to get you to click on it |
| 0:12.2 | and not only to click on it, but to buy. |
| 0:14.4 | This program is made possible by the members and donors |
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| 0:23.9 | and occasional members-only bonus content, |
| 0:26.0 | visit the Contributes tab at bestofaloft.com. |
| 0:28.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left podcast |
| 0:31.4 | with clips today from Humorless Queers, |
| 0:33.8 | The Benjamin Dixon Show, The Laura Flanders Show, |
| 0:36.4 | on the media, Democracy Now, and Intercepted. |
| 0:47.0 | I heard that the Senate passed this week a bill |
| 0:50.8 | that basically gives Internet service providers |
| 0:53.8 | the right to sell their customer's data. |
| 0:57.0 | Is that right? |
| 0:58.3 | What happened? |
| 0:59.3 | Like, can you catch us up? |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | So just when you think that all of the horrific things |
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