Category Archives: politics
Privacy by Design
The latest CDT Policy Post discusses the importance Privacy by Design. They extensively reference Anne Cavoukian (Ontario’s kickass Privacy Commissioner and author of Who Knows). The seven principles of Privacy by Design are: Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative, not Remedial Privacy … Continue reading
Good help is hard to find (or: Nancy Pelosi annexes Canada)
I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential. She wrote me back: Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff. Note the key paragraph … Continue reading
Diane Feinstein sending constituents bad info
As part of a letter-writing campaign, I recently asked Senator Diane Feinstein to support health care (health insurance?) reform. The form letter I got back is simply wrong. She wrote “However, neither the Senate nor the House has adopted a … Continue reading
Sixty-five more reasons to call congress
Reposted from my daily kos diary: A while ago, I wrote about Stories of Health, our project to document how America’s broken health care system affects us all. On the eve of Congress’ historic health care vote, I have some … Continue reading
Jon Stewart eviscerates spineless democrats
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Protest + brass section = performance art
Operation Hey Mackey! – Whole Foods, Oakland from Jamie LeJeune on Vimeo. via Venice for Change.
Protect Insurance Companies PSA
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
MAPLight’s awesome Money Near Votes tool
If you haven’t heard of MAPLight.org before, here’s what they do (which is fantastic): MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run … Continue reading
The US Congress doesn’t understand the Internet
Recently, I received an email from Nancy Pelosi: Apparently no one explained to her (despite representing Internet central), that scanning your letterhead and pasting it in to your email is a bad idea. It looks worse when it’s on a … Continue reading
Doctorow: reign in ISPs to foster innovation
Writing for The Guardian, Cory Doctorow explains why net neutrality is essential and dispells myths about billing to show us we need a free and open Internet to allow for innovation: Take filtering: by allowing ISPs to silently block access … Continue reading