The word privacy had a very different meaning in the time of the Forefathers. Privacy was where and when one's personal human waste was deposited; the word was shortened in Colonial America to 'privy', also known as the 'little shack out back'. (Thus, the word is not in the Constitution.)
As a reaction to abuses by the British, the principle of the government being required to have a court order before lawfully invading one's personal property or person was established in the Third and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution:
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Some rights to privacy have been found in these amendments and others by the U.S. Supreme Court, but not without controversy. Landmark decisions include Griswold v. Connecticut which specifically holds that the Constitution protects the right to personal privacy.
The terrible events of 11 September 2001 provided fascists in the U.S. government with political cover to tear away many privacy rights – for individuals only, with increased assurances that corporations and government are shielded by 'national security' from any such oversight. The first PATRIOT Act established a series of secret warrantless wiretap programs that continue to this day.
The Revolution is never over, the Class War is perpetual. — G.E. Nordell
Rights only exist when they apply to everyone. When only some people are accorded a so-called 'right', then it is privilege and subjugation. — G.E. Nordell
If the government has nothing to hide, why is it hiding everything? — U.S.A.F. LtCol. Robert Bowman
"Rights exist to protect the minority from the majority." — Edward Snowden
There is also the parallel issue of the Right of Free Speech, which is guaranteed in the United States by the First Amendment – "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech" – but thwarted in hundreds of ways by the fascist media, by government agencies, and by anti-Constitution voters.
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persecution of Bradley/Chelsea Manning - convicted in July 2013, released from prison in May 2017
2 0 1 2 Events 2012 June 19: Julian Assange applied for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England
2012 Aug 16: Ecuador granted asylum to Julian Assange at their embassy in London, England
2 0 1 3 Events 2013 June 6: Publication in the Washington Post and the Guardian of London U.K. of leaked documents describing the N.S.A.'s broad-based unwarranted surveillance programs, including PRISM. Whistleblower Edward Snowden obtained a leave of absence from his civilian job with Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii in May, released those documents to the journalists, and fled to Hong Kong. He went undercover and has been seeking political asylum, first in Iceland, then South America, then in Russia. He has been on temporary asylum in Moscow since 2013.
2 0 1 6 Events 2016 April: Leakage of the Panama Papers, 'the biggest data leak in history', which exposed 140 government officials and others and international corporations who used offshore bank accounts to hide illegal or politically questionable activities. The 11.5 million documents {2.6 million terabytes of data} were delivered by an anonymous source in August 2015 to the Sόddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and later to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. After examination by 400 journalists in 80 countries, the first data release took place on 3 April 2016, of 149 documents. Two days later the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned.
Panama Papers entry at Wikipedia
2017 March: Credit agency Equifax suffered a major computer systems data security breach which was kept secret until reported by Bloomberg in September; Equifax said that the earlier intrusion was unrelated to the breach that the company discovered in July but did not disclose until six weeks later; the second breach may have impacted as many as 143 million people.
2017 Sept 8: Credit agency Equifax announced that it had suffered a major computer systems data security breach, not discovered until July 29th; the intrusion may have impacted as many as 143 million people in the U.S.A, 44 million in the U.K., and a hundred thousand in Canada. The company has offered free credit security service for a year, but the phone munbers are permanently busy and Equifax hasn't figured out how to send confirmation emails to new clients (and hurricane damage in Florida and Georgia is no excuse). Ten days later Bloomberg revealed an earlier Equifax computer systems data security breach in March that was kept secret. In both incidents, Equifax hired cybersecurity firm Mandiant to investigate.
2017 Sept 26: The Sonic Drive-In fastfood chain, which has more than 3,500 restaurants in 44 states, reported that it had experienced a credit card-related data breach, possibly compromising millions of credit & debit card accounts; Sonic's stock plunged by 4.4 percent next day.
2017 November: Leakage of the Paradise Papers, a trove of 13.4 million records from law firms Appleby and Estera (who split in 2016) that exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trumps billionaire commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, the secret dealings of the chief fundraiser for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the offshore interests of more than 120 political & busimness figures around the world, including the Queen of England and pop star Madonna.
Paradise Papers entry at Wikipedia
2017 November: Uber the ride-hailing company revealed that hackers stole the personal data of 50 million Uber customers and 7 million drivers back in October 2016. Uber paid the hackers $100,000 to delete the data, which included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and in the case of some U.S. drivers, their driver's license numbers.
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2018 Jan 11: Ecuador granted citizenship to Julian Assange.
2018 May 25: The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union goes into effect; the law was adopted in April 2016 with a two-year transition period. The new rules on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union give control over their personal data to citizens and residents and are being adopted by major and minor internet businesses in America and elsewhere so that they can continue to operate in European countries.
"Patriots Act: Voices of Dissent and The Risk of Speaking Out - An Oral History" [2006] by Bill Katovsky Persons interviewed include: former White House counter-terrorism expert Rand Beers; U.S. Parks employee Teresa Chambers; triple-amputee Vietnam War veteran former U.S. Senator Max Cleland; California National Guard Staff Sergeant Lorenzo Dominguez; Daniel Ellsberg; Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett; New York Times columnist Paul Krugman; arrested protestor Max Mecklenburg; F.B.I. whistleblower Coleen Rowley; comedian Mort Sahl; John Sellers; war correspondent Kevin Sites — and many others
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"Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories" [Fleur De Lis Film Studios 2011-2013] 69 episodes featuring Jeffrey J. Deal, Herbert P. Kaufer, Chance E. Gordon, Michael A. Gardiner, Margaret Hamburg, US Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., Stephen Kohn (executive director National Whistleblower Center), Gloria Luna, Andre Birotte Jr., with archive footage of Mafia leader Bill Bonanno, Robert C. Bonner, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Sally Fields, Richard Fine, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Andrew Haggerty, John F. Kennedy, Daniel Leach, A. Howard Matz, Michael Moore, former F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller, Richard M. Nixon, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Redman, Julia Roberts, Karen Silkwood, Oliver Stone, Timothy Stutler, Charlize Theron & Debra Wong-Yang Co-produced, co-written, co-directed & co-hosted by Julia Davis & B.J. Davis
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Gavin MacFadyen [1940-2019]: IMDb listing
Wikipedia news stories of his death incorrectly named him as a co-founder of WikiLeaks; he was in fact Assange's primary attorney in England
"Dark Waters" [Participant/Focus Features Nov 2019] A corporate defense attorney in Cincinnati is confronted in 1998 by a farmer from his rural hometown in West Virginia with evidence that the local DuPont Chemical plant is poisoning residents and livestock by dumping toxic waste into the river . . . Co-produced by & starring Mark Ruffalo; directed by Todd Haynes; written by Matthew Michael Carnahan & Mario Correa, based on a June 2016 magazine article by Nathaniel Rich; also starring Anne Hathaway, William Jackson Harper, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Bill Pullman, Mare Winningham, Victor Garber, Louisa Krause, Scarlett Hicks, Ming Wang, Sydney Miles, Kevin Crowley, Daniel R. Hill, John Newberg, Brian Gallagher, Chaney Morrow, Tera Smith, Marc Hockl, Lyman Chen, Lea Hutton Beasmore, Abi Van Andel, Lisa DeRoberts, Barry Mulholland, Bella Falcone, Denise Dal Vera, Graham Caldwell, Bruce Cromer, Jeffrey Grover, Andrew Van Camp, Teri Clark, Keating P. Sharp, Barry G. Bernson, Geoff Falk, Dennis Craig Hensley, Amy Morse, Caleb Dwayne Tucker, Trenton Hudson, Kelly Mengelkoch, William Cross, Angel Kerns, Jon Osbeck, Harrison Sheckler, Wynn Reichert, Karen Koester, Courtney DeCosky, Reese Foster, Greg Violand, Jim Kirsch, Viktoria Leskiv, Mike Seely, Trent Rowland, Michael Joseph Thomas Ward, Michael King, Michelle Peter, Braden, Judy McQueen Bauer, Karen Olchovy, Damian Tanenbaum, Richard Doone, Matt Hudson, John Moll, Paul Kulis, Bret Aaron Knower, Michael Haney, Sue Hopkins, Joanne Popolin, Tyler Craig, Jason M. Griggs, Steven Brittingham, Annie Fitzpatrick, David Myers Gregory, Robert Gerding, Laura Dejean, Steven Terry Walker, Denise Barone, John E. Brownlee, Derek Polen, Mark Angel, Jim Azelvandre, Josh Roden, Missy Piper, Michael Lineman, Elaine Marie Smith, Kenny Lykins, Conner P. Kelley, Ramona Schwalbach, Corey Dolan, David Pittinger, Steven Hudson, Andy Parker, Steven Schraub, Mikel Furlow, Chris Stutz, Ronald Jenkins, Bradley Wier, Julie Leskiv, Noah Jonson, Kevin W. Shiveley II, Trina Hayes, Kevin W. Shiveley, Keith Gavigan, David Fultz, John W. Harden
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"The Whistleblower" [Samuel Goldwyn Films Aug 2011] Filmed in Canada, Ukraine & Romania; 'inspired by true events'; an American police officer takes a job as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, hoping to help rebuild the devastated country, but she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up, and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk Directed & co-written by Larysa Kondracki; co-written by Eilis Kirwan; starring Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean, William Hope, Rayisa Kondracki, Jeanette Hain, David Hewlett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Coca Bloos, Luke Treadaway, Liam Cunningham, Anna Schafer, Anca Androne, Sergej Trifunovic, Vlad Ivanov, Florin Busuioc, Alin Panc, Victoria Raileanu, Dorotheea Petre, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Roxana Guttman, Stuart Graham, Catherine McNally, Geoffrey Pounsett, Alexandra Radescu, Radu Bβnzaru, Paul Jerricho
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Bolkovac also co-authored a 2011 book with Cari Lynn, "The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice"
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eco-activist Tim DeChristopher
George W. Bush tried to give away thousands of acres of pristine Utah wilderness to the energy and mining industries via a widely-disputed federal auction in 2008. College student Tim DeChristopher decided to monkey-wrench the process by bidding $1.7 million; he won 22,000 acres with no intention to drill. For this astonishing (and successful) act of civil disobedience, he was sent to federal prison, serving 21 months.
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"Bidder 70" documentary film [First Run Features May 2012]
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg When RAND Corp. analyst Ellsberg copied 7,000 pages of documents revealing government shenanigans during the VietNam War, he was vilified by the press and put on trial for treason. None of the persons implicated in the documents were indicted for their crimes; the fallout did however include the WaterGate Crisis and the cover-up by President Nixon's White House, and Nixon's resignation under threat of impeachment.
Rudolf Elmer, former senior executive at the Swiss bank Julius Baer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Elmer
C.I.A. intelligence analyst Melvin A. 'Mel' Goodman
Melvin Goodman's twenty-four-year career as a respected intelligence analyst at the C.I.A., specializing in US/Soviet relations, ended abruptly in 1990 when he resigned because he could no longer tolerate the corruption that he witnessed at the highest levels of the Agency. In 1991 he went public, blowing the whistle on top-level officials and leading the opposition against the appointment of Robert Gates as C.I.A. director (Gates was approved by Congress and served from November 1991 to January 1993.
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British Intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun
Leaked top-secret information to the press in 2003 concerning illegal activities by the United States, including the U.S. National Security Agency's joint US-UK illegal eavesdropping operation on countries tasked with passing a second United Nations resolution on the invasion of Iraq; charged eight months later with breaking the Official Secrets Act of 1989; the charges against Gun were dropped after the prosecution declined to offer any evidence.
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won the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence [est. 2001] in 2003
"Hers was the most important - and courageous - leak I've ever seen, more timely and potentially more effective than the Pentagon Papers." Daniel Ellsberg
"Official Secrets" [Sierra/Affinity Jan 2019] The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal N.S.A. joint US-UK spy operation Co-written & directed by Gavin Hood; co-written by Gregory & Sara Bernstein, based on the 2008 book by Marcia & Thomas Mitchell; starring Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Hattie Morahan, Jack Farthing, Shaun Dooley, John Heffernan, Monica Dolan, Ray Panthaki, Kenneth Cranham, Chris Larkin, Peter Guinness, Angus Wright, Jodie McNee, Darrell D'Silva, Clive Francis, Hanako Footman, Chris Reilly, John Alan Roberts, Adam Bakri, Jo Wheatley, Janie Dee, Dave Simon, Fiona Skinner, Paul Blackwell, Mark Preston, Lindy Whiteford, Adam Darlington, Tina Louise Owens, Michael James, Colin Murtagh, Paul Redfern, Mark Hugh-Williams, Jane Hamer, Anneliese Orr, Niccy Lin
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
reported on the My Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and alleged misrepresentations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh
won the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence [est. 2001] in 2017
convicted whistleblower U.S. Army SFC Bradley/Chelsea Manning
The original source of almost 400,000 'Iraq War Logs' documents that appeared on Wikileaks in October 2010; convicted of 17 of 22 charges at U.S. Army court martial in July 2013 and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment; in January 2017, President Obama commuted Manning's sentence to seven years (time served}, which scheduled his/her release for May 2017. Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning announced in January 2018 her intention to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, challenging Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms.
www.BradleyManning.org Bradley Manning Support Network >> https://www.luminairity.com/
"Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning" [March 2012] by Greg Mitchell & Kevin Gosztola
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"Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and The Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets In American History" [6/2012] by Denver Nicks
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"The Passion of Bradley Manning" [2012] by Chase Madar
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"I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and I witnessed the N.S.A. violating it on a massive scale. I knew what I had to do: I kept my oath." — Edward Snowden
ex-C.I.A. agent whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
Afro-American C.I.A. employee Jeffrey Sterling filed a racial discrimination complaint within the C.I.A. in April 2000; the C.I.A. cancelled his security clearance and placed him on administrative leave in March 2001; two settlement attempts failed, and his contract with the C.I.A. was terminated in January 2002. He filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit, and the U.S. successfully argued that going to trial would reveal important 'national secrets'; the dismissal was upheld on appeal in 2005.
From 2002 to 2004, federal surveillance intercepted emails and telephone calls between Sterling and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist James Risen. U.S. attorney Neil H. MacBride filed an indictment against Sterling in December 2010 under the Espionage Act of 1917, for mishandling national defense information. The alleged communications were about the C.I.A.'s 'Operation Merlin' that provided flawed nuclear weapon blueprints to Iran in 2000. Sterling was arrested and charged in January 2011, becoming the fifth individual in the history of the United States who has been so charged. The trial began in January 2015; Sterling was convicted on January 26; sentencing was delayed to mid-May because of the lenient sentence given to Army General David Petraueus for a similar offense. Sterling eventually served 2½ years in prison, then several months in a halfway facility, and was finally freed in early Summer 2018.
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investigative journalist & whistleblower Gary Webb [1955-2004]
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published a book based on the 'Dark Alliance' series in 1998
"The Killing Game: Selected Stories from the Author of Dark Alliance" [] edited by Webb's son, Eric
whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner The former Air Force linguist was arrested in June 2017 on allegations that she gave members of the news media a secret report about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and was denied bail as a possible flight risk. (By charging her under the 101-year-old Espionage Act, she will not be allowed to defend herself by arguing that the release of the document was in the public interest.) She pled guilty in June 2018 to a felony charge of leaking classified information; the deal with prosecutors calls for a 63-month prison sentence and three years of supervised probation.
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"Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats - Articles From The Nation, 1931-2014" [2014] Edited by Richard Kreitner, Introduction by David Cole 34 essays and articles by: Kai Bird & Max Holland; David Burnham; David Cole; Fred Cook on the F.B.I.; Frank Donner on terrorism (+1); Laura Flanders on public libraries; Sally Fly; Eric Foner; C. Hartley Grattan; Michael Harrington; Christopher Hayes on secret government; Christopher Hitchens; Jameel Jaffer & Patrick C. Toomey; Penn Kimball; Naomi Klein; Jaron Lanier on metadata; Edward V. Long; Joseph R. Lundy; Victor Navasky on the F.B.I.; Kenneth OReilly; Christian Parenti; Anthony Prisendorf; Jonathan Schell on dissidence (+2); Herman Schwartz on F.I.S.A.; Tim Shorrock; Athan G. Theoharis on wiretapping; Diana Trilling (1949 review of Orwell's "1984"); Alan F. Westin on wiretapping; Patricia J. Williams on Alberto Gonzales (+1); and H.H. Wilson on the F.B.I.
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"Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance - A Graphic Novel" [2017] by Pratap Chatterjee & Khalil Bendib
Verax means 'truth-teller' and was one of Edward Snowden's code names; this book is a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance since the attack on 9/11 unleashed electronic spying by the U.S. government on a massive worldwide scale
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"We Live In Public" documentary feature [indep Aug 2009]
Co-produced & directed by Corey Ogilvie; featuring Noam Chomsky, Kalle Lasn, Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Andy Bichlbaum, Sandy Nurse, Liz Evans, Jesse LaGreca, George Machado, Tim Pool, Vlad Teichberg, Makh Aten, Priscilla Grim, Justin Wedes, Aaron Black, Bishop George Packard, Pete Dutro, Michael Premo, Jen Waller, Gideon Oliver, George Martinez, and other key figures from the Occupy Wall Street movement
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"War On Whistleblowers: Free Press and The National Security State" documentary feature [Brave New Foundation April 2013]
67-minute documentary highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse Co-produced & directed by Robert Greenwald; featuring whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, John Kiriakou (archive footage), Chelsea Manning (archive footage) & Thomas Tamm; also featuring Seymour Hersh, David Carr, Sharon Weinberger, Tom Vanden Brook, Danielle Brian, Conchita Gayl, Robert Gates, Ben Freeman, Winslow Wheeler, William Hartung, Dana Priest, Michael Isikoff, Pete Sepp, Jane Mayer, Tom Devine, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Kate Bohner, Jesselyn Radack, J. William Leonard, Steven Aftergood, Jake Tapper, Lucy Dalglish & Glenn Greenwald; with archive footage of Joe Biden, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Barack Obama, James Risen, Stephen Vladeck & Richard Nixon available for streaming (for donation) or for public screening at official website
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"Whistleblower" [Philippines April 2016] /tt5612478/
"The Circle" [S.T.X./EuropaCorp April 2017]
"Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better." Filmed around San Francisco, California and around Los Angeles, California; a young girl lands a dream job at a powerful tech company, only to uncover a nefarious agenda that will affect the lives of her friends, family, and that of humanity Co-produced, co-written & directed by James Ponsoldt; co‑written by Dave Eggers, based on his novel; music by Danny Elfman; technical consultant Jaron Lanier; starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, musician Beck, Nate Corddry, Mamoudou Athie
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