{"id":9832,"date":"2026-07-04T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:23:12","slug":"pirate-news-independence-from-government-surveillance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/pirate-news-independence-from-government-surveillance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Independence from Government Surveillance Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve, Joe and James discuss our events, the EFF&#8217;s Journalist Security Checklist and the US Government&#8217;s use of targeted advertising to track you. This recording is so belated we recorded it in March. Oooops! At least the topics are relevant to our 250th Independence Day! Stay cool and keep the revolutionary spirit alive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/RsRW9AoLNsg?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WaS3WXqoyVc&amp;list=PLJkln2YbNC6_UJ0wxDwoaX3mDA1IQMKNd\">2026 Party Conference Playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/events\/\">find our upcoming 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:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/Surveillance_Memory_Bank_and_Resources\">Surveillance Memory Bank and Resources<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/2025_Administrative_Coup_Memory_Bank\">Our Administrative Coup Memory Bank<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/Things_to_Do_When_Fascists_are_Taking_Over\">Our Things to Do when Fascists are Taking Over<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The links we mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2025\/06\/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border\">A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2026\/03\/19\/the-government-uses-targeted-advertising-to-track-your-location-heres-what-we-need-to-do\/\">The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here\u2019s What We Need to Do.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public domain music we used (all from the Internet Archive):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/berliner-philharmoniker-claudio-abbado-tchaikovsky-1812-overture-op.-49-th-49\">Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49, TH 49<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mozart-kv-249-march-for-orchestra-in-d-major\">Mozart KV 249 March For Orchestra In D Major<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sob-sister-sadie\">Sob Sister Sadie by\u00a0Original Memphis Five<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/throw-down-blues\">Throw Down Blues by Original Memphis Five<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/78_the-black-horse-troop-march_new-york-military-band-john-philip-sousa_gbia0083141b\">The Black Horse Troop March by New York Military Band; John Philip Sousa composer<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/78_purple-heather_billy-whitlock-whitlock_gbia3038038b\">Purple Heather by Billy Whitlock<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/national-anthem-united-states-star-spangled-banner\/United+States+of+America+National+Anthem+(Instrumental).mp3\">National Anthem United States Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image Credit: James O&#8217;Keefe, CC By-SA 4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Joe and James discuss our events, the EFF&#8217;s Journalist Security Checklist and the US Government&#8217;s use of targeted advertising to track you.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9948,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[32,10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CambridgeShotSpotter1x2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}