The Government Is Blacklisting People Based on Predictions of Future Crimes

We were talking about this sort of thing last week, The government is putting people on the No Fly List based on things people might do, not what they have actually done.

Further, despite promises to the contrary, the government is not providing reasons why citizens are on the list, nor does it really give those on the list any real way to appeal the decision.

Meantime, This post says we should be suspicious of tech companies going to the federal government for privacy legislation,

This post points out that much of the consumer privacy protection legislation is being done at the state level. It was interesting to read how different states are doing things.

However, the author believes that the industry is appealing to the federal government to negate the legislative work done in the states. It is doing it using terms like “privacy regulation” because that has popular support right now.

Granted, both of these are from the ACLU’s website, so they might be slanted, but they raise disturbing issues.