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Courtesy of Watchung Hills Regional High School District
You may have awakened this morning to news that the bill to curb the NSA failed to win its filibuster margin of 60 and proceed forward…
Do not be dissuaded. This is probably a good thing. It was watered down considerably to get enough Republican votes to pass.
The good news, is that without renewal, in the next Republican Congress, it will expire if nothing is done to re-pass it. And everyone knows, it is far easier for Republicans to vote “no” against weakening our defense against terrorism, than it is to vote “yes” to putting every American’s deepest private thoughts and spoken words on speaker phone.
The parts of the reauthorized Patriot Act which were interpreted to allow for the mass surveillance revealed by Snowden last year, expire midnight of June 1st of next year, if no action to reauthorize them is taken….
Had this bill been passed last night, they would have remained intact far longer. As it is, next Spring there will not be enough votes in the House or Senate to pass a new Patriot Act based on the shake up that occurred in both houses this past election.
Yesterday InBloom announced it will die.
“I have made the decision to wind down the organization over the coming months,” inBloom CEO Iwan Streichenberger wrote in an email to the organization’s supporters. “The unavailability of this technology is a real missed opportunity for teachers and school districts seeking to improve student learning.”
The announcement comes on the heels of the New York state legislature’s recent enactment of legislation that effectively pulled the plug on inBloom’s last remaining large partner….
It was a dumb idea… Selling our children’s profiles.
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