On AlterNet: information

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6 Things You Need to Know About the Government's New Spy Law (CISPA)

Scott Lemieux, AlterNet. April 18, 2012.

CISPA would allow information sharing between corporations and the government, and presents serious dangers to individual privacy.

Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track Your Emails and Phone Calls

Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, James Bamford, Democracy Now!. March 21, 2012.

An investigative reporter reveals that the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls.

How The War on Women Opens the Door for Politics in Your Doctor's Office

Tina Dupuy, AlterNet. March 20, 2012.

Both Arizona and Kansas are considering bills giving doctors the legal authority to withhold potentially crucial information about a woman's health, and in this case her child's.

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum

Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. February 27, 2012.

Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry, and an ignorant public is just what Santorum and his allies count on.

Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information

George Monbiot, The Guardian. February 12, 2012.

There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood.

Fired for a Blog Post? A State Department Employee Explains How Sharing a Link to WikiLeaks Led to Interrogation

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com. September 27, 2011.

An insider explains how he was swept up in the backwards security policies and scapegoating of the State Department.

Inside the Surveillance State: How Peaceful Activists Get Swept Up onto "Terrorist" Watch Lists

Nancy Murray, Kade Crockford, TruthOut and ACLU Massachusetts. September 15, 2011.

There appears to be no end to the appetite for data to be stored and mined, and all sorts of agencies want a share of the action.

Is Your Mobile Phone Transmitting Your Private Information to Corporations?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. June 3, 2011.

Our mobile phones and computers are storing and sharing more and more personal information--but do we have control over who sees it?

The American Empire Is Collapsing, And Americans Will Be The Last to Know

Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post. December 15, 2010.

50 years from now historians may write about the fall of empire. But history is writing itself furiously right now, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information.

Vote411.org: A One Stop Shop for All Your Voting Needs

Staff, AlterNet. October 30, 2008.

Voting information. Don't leave home without it.

We Must Combat Government Secrecy

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. June 3, 2008.

Under Bush, access to information has been increasingly restricted in the name of national security at levels never seen before.

A New Version of Moore's Law

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. January 8, 2008.

The amount of information in the world is always expanding faster than the data storage systems available to capture it.