Today: Tell the House not to expand Commonwealth’s wiretapping laws (November 13, 2017)
Now that the Massachusetts Senate has finished its omnibus criminal justice reform package, the Massachusetts House is working on its version (H. 4011).…
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Thanks to the Boston Anarchist Bookfair 2017 (November 13, 2017)
Thanks to the folks who made the Boston Anarchist Bookfair possible this year whether the organizers, speakers, vendors or participants. We look forward to…
11/18, Town Government Workshop (November 10, 2017)
In a first for us, on Nov. 18th we will be working with the Milford Democratic and Republican town committees to teach how town…
SESTA halted, but the fight isn’t over (November 9, 2017)
Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee voted SESTA (S.1693) out of Committee. SESTA would partially repeal section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA230) in the case…
Boston Anarchist Bookfair this weekend (November 8, 2017)
The Boston Anarchist Bookfair this weekend and we will be there. We will have a cryptotable both days and will be helping the Boston…
Protect the open web today (November 7, 2017)
The US Senate is working on S.1693 SESTA — the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. This bill would repeal section 230 of the…
We killed the wiretapping expansion (October 27, 2017)
Early this morning, the Massachusetts Senate voted 22 to 14 to kill amendment 87 that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Thankfully,…
Today: tell Mass. Senators to oppose giving prosecutors new surveillance powers (October 25, 2017)
The Massachusetts Senate is working on an omnibus criminal justice reform package. Two amendments (#24 and #87) would give prosecutors unprecedented new powers…
NSA, FOIA, and a long-running quest for Telephony Metadata (October 22, 2017)
Gathering information through FOIA or public records requests can be a long-term endeavor. I made a privacy act request to the NSA back…
No Free Lunch for Amazon (October 19, 2017)
Amazon’s deadline is here and many states have fallen over themselves to sell their cities as the location for Amazon’s second headquarters. With…