{"id":8610,"date":"2023-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2023-10-01T20:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T00:34:40","slug":"pirate-news-say-no-to-bric-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/pirate-news-say-no-to-bric-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Say No to BRIC Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve and James discuss the Boston City Council&#8217;s upcoming Wednesday, 10\/4 vote to accept up to $3.4 million in Federal Funds to the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, our upcoming events and the abysmal state of automotive data privacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/boston-say-no-to-bric-funding\/\">Check out details about the Boston City Council meeting and how to contact the city councilors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XA0Srdu9GlU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Fall conference will be October 14th. We are looking for a location and would appreciate your suggestions. We plan to video stream the conference as well. If you would like to help, the contact us at <a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org?subject=Fall%20conference\">info@masspirates.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/register-our-fall-2023-conference\">Register for the conference<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/speak-our-fall-2023-party-conference\">Speak at the conference<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More details will be at <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">our 2023 conference page<\/a>&nbsp;as well as links to past conference recordings, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xxbn8FffTEI\">Spring conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Links we discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/privacynotincluded\/articles\/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy\/\">Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/privacynotincluded\/articles\/what-data-does-my-car-collect-about-me-and-where-does-it-go\/\">What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go?<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.high-mobility.com\/car-data\">High Mobility Car Data API<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/2012\/10\/black-box-101-understanding-event-data-recorders\/index.htm\">Black box 101: Understanding event data recorders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: James O&#8217;Keefe CC-BY-SA\/4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve and James discuss the Boston City Council&#8217;s upcoming Wednesday, 10\/4 vote to accept up to $3.4 million in Federal Funds to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,47,10,51,57,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-podcasts","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-take-action","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SurveillanceCamera.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}