Penn. governor-elect urged to ban surveillance

[mmonk]

Outgoing Governor Ed Rendell's Homeland Security chief resigned under pressure in October after the Patriot-News of Harrisburg reported the state had hired a U.S.-Israeli company called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response to monitor hundreds of organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and about a dozen other groups called on Corbett to sign an executive order when he takes office in January that would bar officials from monitoring individuals and organizations, including peace activists, Muslims and opponents of natural gas drilling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/10/us-pennsylvania-surveillance-idUSTRE6A95MY20101110

Thanks to Naomi Wolf for this (from a tweet this morning)

[Bunny]

1. This story came out over a year ago.

:shrug:

[michreject]

2. I was scratching my noggin

I was thinking they had a stealth election and nobody knew about it.

[mmonk]

4. Reuters on Nov. 10th of last year.

A citizen journalist has been documenting instances of outsourcing (her name Jennifer Slattery). The question is why we are allowing this.

[sendero]

3. I've been thinking about surveillance...

... lately. Maybe OWS could better spend its time simply following every politician in DC, seeing who they are meeting, where they are going and what they are doing.

Seems to me that these politicians don't really believe we have any rights to privacy, why should they? There would actually be nothing remotely illegal about having scads of folks watching them and blogging their activities. I mean, who ISN'T for government transparency? And who doesn't enjoy outing a hypocrite?