Tuesday, March 15, 2016

longer form news on econ and info, winter 2016

This winter Thomas Piketty talked about economics on the BBC.
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And a month ago there was this story where a local municipality was shown to be exercising greater surveillance of groups, presumably despite constitutional rights and 'freedom to assemble':
Of course the NSA is deeply interested. The Washington Post admits as much.


People have begun looking at the idea of how corporate surveillance impacts populations and whether those populations have any recourse.

Over the last month discussion has spread over the FBI asking Apple Co. to write code to hack into its own phone products. Apple has resisted publicly and the FBI and the Obama Administration have gamely taken to the airwaves praising the merits of their plea. But that's not all.

Still, if the comedian John Oliver is any indication, perhaps the tide in public opinion has tipped in favor of Apple's position, if no one else's.
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Henry Rollins was on the BBC World Service weekly show Hardtalk.

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