Loss of Privacy

Keeping you informed on recent losses to privacy and civil rights worldwide.

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This is Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney. In this video he tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.

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Aww, they take all the fun out of banking these days.

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With President Obama pushing for more electronic medical records, Americans need to look closely at just how well guarded their personal, medical information really is.  Wikileaks reports that the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was hacked into and over 8 million medical records are being held for a $10 million ransom in an encrypted database.

“I have your [expletive] In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :( For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password.”

Virginia now has a statement [pdf] clarifying that the backups are fine and details [pdf] on what was stored on the files.

In October 2008, a similar event occurred.  Though smaller in nature, these types of breaches will become commonplace if everyone’s medical information is digitized.  It’s just too easy for criminals to access.  There’s so much information in medical files that it’s a goldmine just waiting to be dug through.  Sometimes, low tech, i.e. paper, is still the best way to go.

Here’s something to think about.  Identity theft.  Hacking people’s medical records.  Getting hit by a car and sent, barely conscious, to the hospital.  Do you trust electronic medical records now?

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This video is from 2007.  I sincerely hope that Rahm Emanuel has changed his views since then, especially since there are, quite literally, hundreds of thousands of people wrongly on the no-fly list.  Unfortunately, with the introduction of H.R. 45, it seems like they are trying to take steps to restrict gun ownership.  Fortunately, it was referred to a subcommittee, effectively killing it.

The instrumental goal of any law is simple: to fulfill an agenda.  Since most everyone has at least some semblance of reasoning capability that allows them to detect an agenda, but most everyone also has the involuntary desire to “be good”, the name of the game for the rulers is to incrementally redefine “good” and “evil” so that the very ruled people will voluntarily work for the service of that agenda, while simultaneously scorning dissenters.

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Using the GSh-18 handgun, you can defeat any body armor known to man.

The GSh-18 pistol, the world’s most lightweight handgun, is capable of piercing any body armor. Weapon designers at the arms developer and manufacturer KBP Instrument Design Bureau in Tula say it is a next generation side arm, replacing the legendary Makarov pistol.

Watch the video here.

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