Paging George Orwell …

Posted by Dacia Mitchell | Managing Editor on Jun 6, 2013 | 0 comments

This week, the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald posted a classified court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that ordered Verizon Business Network Services to produce the following “tangible things”:

All call detail records or “telephony metadata” created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.

And this just in, apparently the Guardian has a 41-page Powerpoint training document containing the National Security Agency’s training document for collecting user data “directly from the servers” of Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, Paltalk (people still use this?), YouTube, Skype, AOL, and Apple.

Paging Michel Foucault, George Orwell, and Jasbir Puar , your table is ready.

Also on today on #TWiBRadio, we also talk about the consequences for a reporter who overstepped and I read some hilariously translated Google voicemail transcriptions.

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And this morning on #amTWiB, L.Joy, Imani, and the rest of the #TheMorningCrew started the movement to FREE DANE COOK! … sort of, making “annoying a police officer” a felony, and challenging gender stereotypes.

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Dacia Mitchell | Managing Editor

Dacia Mitchell is a writer and domestic warrior based in Oakland, CA. When she isn't co-hosting and slinging facts at #TWIBRadio, she's mashing her keyboard to complete her dissertation in American Studies at NYU. She tweets.

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Filed Under: AOL, Apple, Dane Cook, Facebook, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, George Orwell, Glenn Greenwald, Google, Guardian, Jasbir Puar, Michel Foucault, Microsoft, NSA, Paltalk, Skype, Verizon, Yahoo, YouTube