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 | Groups Ask FTC to Look Facebook’s Proposed Privacy Changes And Impact On Teens by Joy Spencer, Center for Digital Democracy September 18th, 2013 Over 20 public health, media, youth, and consumer advocacy groups sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today objecting to Facebook’s recent proposed changes to its privacy policy. The groups raised concerns about the potential negative impact of these changes on teens. |
 | May 2012 NSA Audit by National Security Agency, Washington Post August 19th, 2013 Here is the May 2012 NSA audit documenting 2,776 violations of the blanket surveillance regulatory codes in one year. |
 | Daniel Ellsberg at Restore The Fourth - San Francisco August 7th, 2013 Famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg was one of the featured speakers at the August 4th anti-spying protest. |
 | FCC Votes on 8/9 to Cap Interstate Prison Phone Call Rates to .25/minute by Gregg McDonald, Fairfax Times August 5th, 2013 Update: On August 9th, the FCC voted (2-1) to cap interstate prison phone rates to .25 minute. |
_3.jpg) | Verizon Abandons Fire Island: Not Yet Says The FCC Update 8-19: The FCC rejected Verizon's "fast track" request to not rebuild phone lines on Fire Island and forcibly transition residents to Voice-Link "wireless-only" service. |
_1.jpg) | Strange Bedfellows: Bush Security Apparatus Letter to Congress June 5th, 2013 This letter, signed by a who's who of Bush-era military politicos was sent to Congress before the Amash/Conyers vote. |
 | Statewide PUC Hearings on Wireless Lifeline Throughout May, June and July, the PUC will hold public hearings throughout California to gather public input on wireless lifeline. |
.jpg) | No Such Thing as an Obamaphone: Keeping Universal Service Real by The Utility Ratepayer Network/CMJ, http://www.turn.org Soup in every pot, a toilet in every house, America has made promises about what is available to all. One of those things is a phone connection to call for help when needed. |
| County Allows Outrageous Charges for Inmate Phone Calls by Tracy Rosenberg, Contra Costa Times/San Jose Mercury News Op-ed on the disparity between county and state facilities on prison phone calling rates |
.jpg) | Oakland Domain Awareness Center Up For A Vote on July 30th at City Council by Ali Winston, Center for Investigative Reporting In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, the City of Oakland plans to expand a port security program into a state-of-the-art citywide surveillance program providing law enforcement with "situational awareness". |
| FCC Starts Reviewing Prison Phone Costs Update 12/28: The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Prison Phone Kickbacks has been issued by the Federal Communications Commission |
_2.jpg) | Clear Channel Voter Fraud Billboards Coming Down by Lauren Fox, US News and World Report Bain Capital-owned Clear Channel Communications is removing anonymous billboards about voter fraud placed in low-income neighborhoods throughout swing states Ohio and Wisconsin |
 | The Mergers Don't Quit: T-Mobile Announces Plan to Buy Metro PCS by Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post Tech On October 3rd, T-Mobile, the nation's 4th largest mobile phone service provider, announced plans to acquire Metro PCS, a smaller provider that also targets the lower income mobile phone user. |
 | Torching California's Broadband Future: Susan Crawford by Susan Crawford, Wired Magazine Susan Crawford of Harvard's Kennedy School breaks down the disaster of SB 1161 in Wired Magazine, which can only be stopped by a veto by Governor Jerry Brown. |
 | Former CNN Reporter Amber Lyon Quits Saying She Was Forced to Lie by Alex Jones, Infowars Interview with Lyon, a 3-time Emmy winner who says she inserted Bahrani government propaganda into her CNN stories. She quit. |
 | SB 1161 - Phone Deregulation Threatens Affordability, Reliability and Safety in CA Update 9/29. Sadly, Governor Brown signed SB 1161 into law on Friday September 28th despite the spirited opposition of almost every public interest advocacy group in California. |
 | Jose Luis Sin Censura: CANCELED! Two major media watchdog groups have joined to file a complaint of failure to enforce broadcast decency standards for an LA-produced Spanish language talk show with a heavy dose of homophobia, nudity and slurs. |
| Filmmaker Ava Duvernay on Prison Phone Kickbacks on CNN CNN Middle of Nowhere filmmaker Ava Duvernay on CNN discussing predatory jail telephone kickbacks. |
 | When Is A Phone Call Not a Phone Call? (When ALEC Says So) by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post Huffington Post column on the threat posed by IP deregulation and SB 1161 |
 | MA and National Lawyers Guild CDC File Comments Opposing Wireless Shutdowns Media Alliance and the National Lawyers Guild CDC (joined by 10 other organizations including Color of Change, Sugar Law Center, The East Bay Social Forum, Alameda Green Party and NHMC), filed comments on April 30th opposing wireless shutdowns. |