‘Everyone Is Not Watched Equally’

15 March 2015 — FAIR

‘Everyone Is Not Watched Equally’

Janine Jackson interviewed Alvaro Bedoya on privacy, technology and the targets of surveillance for the March 11, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Alvaro Bedoya

Alvaro Bedoya: “There is a sad and deep record of companies and the government making very poor decisions of how to treat the information of vulnerable people.”
(image: Big Picture Science)

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McGraw-Hill destroys textbook to placate pro-Israel bloggers By Rania Kalek

11 March 2016 — Electronic Intifada

McGraw-Hill destroys textbook to placate pro-Israel bloggers Rania Khalek

The publisher McGraw-Hill Education is destroying all copies of a political science textbook after receiving complaints from hardline supporters of Israel that it features a series of “anti-Israel” maps.

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