[projectvrm] Inflection points

[Adrian Gropper < >]

+1 Doc

State surveillance is very active in healthcare and it's costing all of us $ thousands a year. Almost all states collect and store information about insurance claims and prescriptions. Many collect information about our health records. This information is used to prop up a health care system that has no price or quality transparency and each of us paying for it at a level that makes other surveillance costs seem trivial. 

Adrian

On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Doc Searls < > wrote:

Hmm.

I have several reactions to this.

One is say "Amen," because I'm in spiritual alignment with the .coms, .nets and .orgs whose logos appear under the title. (The ones I know, anyway, and I don't know them all. Yet.) 

Another is to say, "Why not surveillance in general — and especially by the online advertising business?" That stuff is in our faces, our browsers, our heads and our underwear, every day. Worse, they model what we now know the NSA does.

Another is to say, "Why not fight for personal freedom and dignity in general — and celebrate the developers who are giving us that, through software and systems to prevent tracking, provide anonymity on the Web, and other good stuff?" (Including stuff required on the vendors' side to support creating and maintaining voluntary and productive interactions with customers, rather than the sneaky and coercive stuff that has become the norm.)

But I'm enough of an old PR and marketing guy to know a good parade when I see one, and this seems to be one of them. 

So is Larry Lessig's current walk across New Hampshire: <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/lawrence-lessig-aaron-swa_n_4577917.html>.

So, let's inflect away.

Doc

On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:22 PM, T.Rob < > wrote:

More of an inflection hammer, really.  A repeat of the Internet blackout that stopped SOPA in the US is planned for February 11^th, on the anniversary date of Aaron Swartz's passing.  Obviously, I'd like you to participate and black out your web site, but as it relates to VRM this is perhaps the most visible and largest scale demonstration against mass surveillance yet.  The Summer of Snowden is becoming the winter of our discontent.

 

https://thedaywefightback.org/

 

-- T.Rob