Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2026

Liberty under examination

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‘The Trump administration is trying to get medical records from emergency room visits through the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC.’ {The New Republic 27 July}

https://newrepublic.com/post/213549/trump-admin-hospitals-emergency-room-records

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Sunday, June 28, 2026

Con-men to the the bitter end: the digital ‘Deep State’ Trump and his DOGE friends built

A detailed science-fiction illustration of two women embracing in the centre of a futuristic control room overwhelmed by an artificial intelligence network. One hath long pale-blonde hair and weareth a translucent dress; the other hath long dark hair and a darker flowing garment. Standing face to face, foreheads gently touching, they hold one another tightly—mutual comfort, sorrow, solidarity. Tears are visible on their cheeks. About them, rows of workstations, monitors, and office equipment recede into a cavernous space. Luminous blue and violet energy streams coil through the air, connecting to translucent data-formed figures. Above hangeth an immense glowing nexus of interconnected lines. Cool blue lighting—awe, uncertainty, and emotional resilience amid overwhelming technological transformation.
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Veterans of DOGE stationed at Trump's National Design Center installed visitor-tracking software on US government websites. {The Guardian 28 June}

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears

The ‘Big Brother’ regime of Orwell’s 1984 would doubtless be impressed by the surveillance state that now exists throughout most of the world. The former United States is hardly alone in tracking its citizenry, but no other Western governments are run and staffed by Christian nationalist ideologues and other assorted lunatics — individuals openly hostile to institutional restraint, transparency, and dissent — and captained by an elderly, cartoonish megalomaniac who demands complete adoration and fealty from all. Hell, can it even be said that America remains part of the ‘Western’ world when we increasingly conduct our domestic and foreign affairs in a manner more readily associated with Russia or China?

No ambitious tyranny willingly tolerates unlimited scrutiny of itself whilst declining to scrutinise its own citizens. Surveillance, once established, doth not retreat of its own accord. Millions of us are going to face consequences for speaking out in the not too distant future, but not for anything will I ever give my seal of approval to this Satanic regime that invokes Christ, patriotism, and family even as it grossly undermines all of them.

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Monday, November 29, 2021

Massachusetts: Gov. Charlie Baker says the Commonwealth has been working with other states to create QR code vaccine passport

Meredith Nierman/WGBH News

Privacy and civil liberties advocates and the like are going to hate this, but it would make life easier for those who are vaccinated and would eliminate fraud, as some anti-vaxxers have been forging vaccination cards. Via WGBH -  

"It's a universal standard and we've been working with a bunch of other states, there's probably 15 or 20 of them, to try to create a single QR code that can be used for all sorts of things where people may choose to require a vaccine," Baker said of the passport program. 

Baker showed hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude his code while in the GBH’s studios in Brighton. 

"It's my proof that I've been vaccinated," he said. 

Last week, new Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hinted that the city may implement a vaccine mandate for indoor recreation areas

Baker defended the availability of COVID booster shots in the state, saying Massachusetts is providing around 55,000 total vaccination shots per day, including boosters, and has administered around 1 million booster shots. Baker compared that figure to the 80,000 doses the state was outputting last spring at the height of the vaccination push with the help of mass vaccination centers. (Read more)

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