mostlysignssomeportents:

The Supreme Court has ruled in the closely watched Carpenter v. United States
case, which questioned the constitutionality of warrantless location
surveillance, a widespread practice among US law enforcement and
surveillance agencies.

Government agencies have long harvested bulk location data (and other
forms of metadata) from mobile phone carriers without a warrant, relying
on the “third party doctrine,” a 1970s vintage legal principle that
says that your right to privacy ends once you provide information to
third parties like phone companies. The cases that developed the third
party doctrine were about things like calling records from payphones,
but over the decades, the US government stretched this narrow crack in
the Fourth Amendment into a Grand Canyon-sized crevasse.

A series of cases brought before the Supreme Court in recent years has
begun to reverse the trend, and Carpenter is the latest and most
sweeping narrowing of government wireless surveillance powers.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supremes held that “the exhaustive chronicle of
location information casually collected by wireless carriers” is
fundamentally different from the data that the third-party doctrine
encompasses – the whole decision and its notes runs to 119 pages,
and experts will be parsing out the judgment in the days to come,
analyzing the parts of the US’s warrantless surveillance program that it
leaves intact.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/22/cellphones-are-different.html

charliebradbury1104:

theconqueeror:

labambinafantasma:

If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

It’s funny how y’all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

I’m a US citizen so there’s only one thing I can do for y’all. Reblogging for my European friends!