Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-29

  • Prepaid cards attract money launderers (and anyone else concerned with privacy, for good or bad reason) http://t.co/bGeam3X /via @SanhoTree #
  • Same tools criminals use to protect their privacy can be used by everyone else to protect his/her privacy. Don't track us just to find them. #
  • Does my 2006 Subaru Forester have an EDR (event data recorder; "black box")? Does it benefit me? Can I control it? #nhtsa #bigbrother #
  • G.E. paid zero taxes last year, but people are concerned about piddly multi-thousand-dollar payments moving untraceably on prepaid cards. #
  • Can anyone confirm this? Bitcoin miner wrongly raided for growing cannabis http://bit.ly/mhgsUw #crypto #drugwar #electricity /via @alapoet #
  • First time I was interested in visiting Cuba was when I learned that my government says I cannot do so. Crazy what we free people put up w/. #
  • Three provisions of the horrible USA PATRIOT Act expire Friday. Diane Feinstein is fear-mongering on floor of Senate now. Live on CSPAN-2. #
  • Feinstein wants to extend provisions four years, references "the time we're living in", protecting U.S. from another terrorist attack. #fear #
  • Risk of terrorist attack is far far smaller than risk of US govt abuse of power. I fear NSA/FBI/CIA far more than I fear mad bombers. #
  • Senator Murray (WA) voted for USA PATRIOT Act extensions. Did anyone catch how Cantwell voted? #
  • I was mistaken. Senator Murray voted for cloture. Staffer I spoke w/ didn't know Murray's position on extension of USA PATRIOT Act. #
  • Sen. Cantwell's DC staffer: She voted for cloture, has a number of concerns about USA PATRIOT Act extension #
  • DC offices: Senator Murray: 202-224-2621; Senator Cantwell: 202-224-3441 #usapatriotact #washingtonstate #
  • Seattle Police Blotter now attributes authors of posts. Detective Jamieson inaccurately reported squad car siren was on http://bit.ly/ixiBol #
  • Lots of info from Identity Project re: existing & proposed ID-based controls of rail travel http://bit.ly/kCObgD #tsa #cbp /via @ehasbrouck #
  • King County libraries removing security cameras, putting patron privacy above law enforcement desires http://bit.ly/l1pHu5 Yay, librarians! #
  • We believe intellectual freedom is the important part, so we got out of the camera business /by Bill Ptacek KCLP dirctr http://bit.ly/l1pHu5 #
  • The most valuable time to solve a crime is right after it happens, & the library's warrant requirement delays that /by Des Moines police chf #
  • Requiring warrants for invasions of privacy often delays police work. Such is the price of freedom. No complaints here. #
  • American budget woes are a thing of the past. U.S. has $1 TRILLION for new war planes http://on.wsj.com/j9ZUgs #
  • US gov't threats lead to withdrawal of Texas bill that would have outlawed TSA's airline passenger gropings http://bit.ly/jP4n5I #
  • Rand Paul ("most important man in the Senate") Single-Handedly Halts Vote on USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization http://onforb.es/iQ4kB2 #
  • Go, Rand Paul! http://www.cspan.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/ #
  • Mitch McConnell re: USA PATRIOT Act extension: ”Nothing in this extension has ever been found to be unconstitutional" Secrecy ensures that. #
  • We shouldn't allow the government to troll willy-nilly through millions of records. /by Rand Paul on Senate floor #patriotact #
  • Harry "Rove" Reid's tune changed since he opposed USA PATRIOT Act extension when it let him bash GW Bush. Slimeball. http://bit.ly/j5TRmy #
  • Seattle Police refuse to provide any dash cam video to uninvolved parties for ~3yrs after incident http://mocek.org/blog/?p=62#update3 #foi #
  • Roll call for yesterday's vote on USA PATRIOT Act extension: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/senate/1/84 #
  • Senators Cantwell and Murray from Washington each voted not to extend provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act yesterday. Thanks! #

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