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New Legislation Prevents End-Run of Courts by Government Agencies Buying Americans’ Data; Reflects Supreme Court Rulings that Digital is Different; Reps. Nadler and Lofgren to Introduce House Companion
Vermont Business Magazine US Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, Ron Wyden, D-Ore, and Rand Paul, R-Ky, and 17 other senators, today introduced a bill to put a stop to shady data brokers buying and selling Americans’ Constitutional rights.
The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act closes the legal loophole that allows data brokers to sell Americans’ personal information to law enforcement and intelligence agencies without any court oversight – in contrast to the strict rules for phone companies, social media sites and other businesses that have direct relationships with consumers.
19 Apr 2021
An NFT self-portait of the intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden reportedly sold for $5.4 million at a charity auction last week. The proceeds of the sale benefit the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is a non-profit that works on the development of open-source tools for whistleblowers.
Gizmodo reports that an NFT self-portrait of the former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden was sold for $5.4 million in a charity auction last Friday. The piece, titled “Stay Free” is a digital self-portrait made from the pages of a U.S. Court of Appeals decision that ruled that the NSA’s widespread surveillance of phone records violated the law.
TechShout - Apr 19, 2021
The $5.4 million sale will benefit the Freedom of the Press Foundation, of which Edward Snowden is President
An NFT (non-fungible token) artwork by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been sold for more than $5.4 million.
The artwork titled “Stay Free” combines the entirety of a landmark US court decision ruling the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance violated the law, with the iconic portrait of the whistleblower.
The funds will benefit the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where Snowden is the president.
“FIVE POINT FIVE MILLION from @PleasrDAO. It feels like the whole staff of @FreedomOfPress is watching live, and we’ve never seen anything like this. This is more than a spectacle,” Snowden tweeted.
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