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04 April 2015

U.S. Tech Giants In Crosshairs Of Europe Regulators As Antitrust, Privacy And Other Inquiries Of Google, Facebook, Apple And Amazon Intensify

     Saturday, 4 April 2015, LONDON, ENGLAND - Although the halcyon days may be continuing to the present in the United States for giant tech companies Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and others given the longtime lassitude of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its enforcement of U.S. antitrust laws and Americans' privacy rights taking a far back seat to many of these tech monsters' documented collusion along with telecommunications companies with the United States' spy agencies, with the CIA for example even having ownership and joint partnership interests with Google and these companies routinely feeding information to the NSA and other unconstitutional domestic spying apparatus, with the occasional charade of sham suits by these filthy rich tech behemoths back against the U.S. government in lame disingenuous efforts to demonstrate to the American people that they are are not part of the U.S. government's out of control grossly unconstitutional domestic spying ubiquitous tentacles as exposed most dramatically by the the staggering NSA universal domestic spying disclosures by Booz Allen contractor Edward J. Snowden, European regulators nevertheless reportedly are losing all patience with the abuses and encroachments of these American tech giants acting in flagrant violation of European anti-trust laws and routine invasions of European citizens' privacy.
     The list of American tech monsters' physical and internet invasion of Europe especially via Ireland is well documented in previous partial European regulators' inquiries and assessment of enormous essentially meaningless fines as well as court rulings seeking to curb American tech giants' encroachments extending right into Europeans' homes in flagrant violation of free market principles and core privacy rights where a company such as Google reportedly controls 80% of internet searches effectively dictating what information European citizens will and will not see including about each other as well as undoubtedly making this information readily available to American spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA which routinely share it with the British spook octopus GCHQ which according to Mr. Snowden is even far worse in its citizen surveillance abuses than its American counterparts if such is imaginable.
     Now European regulators reportedly have these U.S. technology giants in their crosshairs with the loudest complaints perhaps against Google's market domination and Facebook's laughable "privacy" policies just being the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile in the United States it is not known if the Obama administration will order DOJ out of its dormancy while on the issue of the rank constitutional abuses of the NSA, CIA, FBI and so-called "alphabet soup" of American spy agencies the very telling sunset, i.e., end of several supposedly empowering sections supporting their illegal actions of the loathsome "Patriot Act" will be allowed to expire or will be extended by a Republican-controlled Congress seemingly incapable of doing anything positive and given the Obama Administration's latest betrayal of its voter base by taking the position that the Bush-Cheney midnight-created monstrosity should be extended.
     To date however the Obama Administration has said it will not intervene to preserve the expiring provisions of the clearly unconstitutional "law" which if anything has played right into the hands of terrorists by wrenching the fabric of fundamental American values but will allow this grotesque blemish on United States legislative history to slowly and painfully die its long-overdue death as by all accounts of their debates to the Founding Fathers it no doubt immediately would have been declared "DOA" dead on arrival.
     Interested readers in the below linked-to article can find many more specifics touching on some of European regulators past actions against U.S. tech giants as well as more details as to what these U.S. monsters "stomping the terra" to quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson can anticipate coming at them hard from European regulators in the not-too-distant future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/technology/europe-regulators-apple-google-facebook.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

17 October 2014

FBI Director James Comey Must Be Booted Out As He Announces Intention To Keep Federal Spying On All Americans Derailing Google And Apple Cellphone And Future Device Encryption Developments "Locking" Personal Information By Default So Once Again Exposing U.S. Tech Users To Domestic And Foreign Spying, Criminals, Hackers, And Other Bad Actors Making Americans' "Secure" Information An Impossibility - He Is A "Back Door Man"

       Friday, 17 October 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment urges all readers concerned about one of today's very top fundamental core Constitutional priorities of reinstating real personal privacy, security in their personal effects and affairs and essential liberty in the "tech age" especially in light of ongoing Snowden revelations of the still untold full depth of the uncontrolled wholesale illegal NSA and other U.S. "national security" agencies' unconstitutional domestic spying on all Americans with no regard either for innocence nor fundamental freedoms from universal lawless criminal government spying that all such concerned readers please consider setting aside the time to read very carefully and pass on as they may deem appropriate the below linked to critical New York Times article reporting in depth on a "policy discussion" given to the Brookings Institution by FBI Director James Comey.
       His documented statements revealed him to be a very dangerous man to our great Nation's future who President Obama (formerly having stated he does not agree with his views) in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment Editorial Board should remove from office as soon as possible before he can (further) execute on the positions he has taken against tech company efforts to give all Americans the ability to take into their own hands the essential liberty, security in their personal effects and affairs, and real personal privacy which is fundamental to our system of government which demonstrably has failed us in the State's absolutely unapologetic complete lack of respect for the very foundational rights of Americans informing the very basis of that compact known as the United States Constitution from which any State power legitimately must derive from the People or otherwise cease to exist.
       The immediate flash point of FBI Director James Comey's most revealing disturbing disclosures of his (but not necessarily the full Administration's) dangerous intentions is the immediate fact of the emergence of Google and Apple cellphones that automatically encrypt or "lock" stored user information not in transmission such that it is accessible to no one but the user including not the maker of the device, U.S. domestic and foreign government spies, hackers, thieves nor all manner of bad actors which is the subject of a federal lawsuit discussed in two previous posts here which the FBI and other US domestic spying agencies lost brought by companies such as tech giants Google and Apple supported by Facebook (and later another related case filed by Twitter) seeking to prevent restraint of their development and sale of these phones and other devices and by extension to prevent further attempted restraint of new such consumer devices and other technical privacy developments which legal decision the FBI and other federal spying agencies currently plan to appeal despite President Obama's Advisory Committee having advised an apparently earlier agreeable President Obama that such codified restrictions should neither be attempted nor implemented and probably would not be supported by Congress either.
       In other words FBI Director James Comey must go because rather than having learned a single redeeming lesson from Snowden's disclosures and their devastating effect on the remaining trust of the American people revealing the vast horrifying deeply criminal culture of federal "national security" domestic spying agencies' contempt for the U.S. Constitution which appears the dominant culture of the State is wholly repugnant to those lovers of liberty and privacy as being fundamental and non-negotiable to a civilized people such as demonstrated for example by the good solid people of New Hampshire who emphasize they would rather "Live Free Or Die" that what FBI Director James Comey instead completely contrary to that lesson has revealed is that what he intends to do is take such utterly contemptible illegal federal State behavior and make it the unabashed law and official policy of this land of the free and home of the brave.
       FBI Director James Comey now fully exposing himself at the vanguard of such deeply misguided thinking and misdirected intention with the will and ability to execute such that he would in fact if anything inadvertently perhaps but nevertheless all the same further destroy the foundations of this Country he would seek to protect therefore has shown himself to be a new United States enemy even with the best intentions for but the worst effect on the liberty and privacy of the American people. Those who would read the article linked to below will see that FBI Director James Comey would brush off such gravely weighty considerations as he must with a few shallow platitudinous unsubstantiated fictional anecdotal-style scares about the same old tired usual subjects as child pornographers, terrorists, hackers, thieves and so on who ironically probably are more greatly benefited by the current system allowing any one of them in the world to roam free in one's most private areas at will from which the major tech companies unified desperately are trying to protect all Americans even as the State is not.
       FBI Director James Comey should be removed from office because whatever his intentions may be the result of their fulfillment will be such further damage to the United States Constitution and its battered core fundamental principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness contingent on the lack of unjust intrusion of the State (and the many others to whom it would let the door remain open) into one's most personal and private affairs especially in the still present wake of recent years' unlawful State actions that are so anathema to this Great Country's founding principles that one fears ultimately for the United States survival under such an unjust and misguided burden on the foundations upon which it was created.
       God Bless the United States of America. Long may it live.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/us/politics/fbi-director-in-policy-speech-calls-dark-devices-hindrance-to-crime-solving.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

28 September 2014

FBI Cries Foul To Latest Generation Apple iPhones Password Protection Even Apple Cannot Bypass To Access Data At Feds' Demand And Google Follows Suit Makes Claim For New Android Phones In Wake Of Yahoo Privacy Lawsuit Against Government

       Sunday, 28 September 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of staggering revelations made public in documents still being released from Edward Snowden methodically upon determination that they will not put Government operatives or agents at direct risk steadily chronicling United States Government blatantly unconscionable unconstitutional criminal misconduct among other things in wholesale mass eavesdropping on and permanently recording its own American citizens across the board with no cause at all snooping into every aspect of the lives of all American people respecting no privacy whatsoever even in every sacred moment of their lives including their communicating about perfectly legal business, family and pleasure matters to everything in between without limitation including for example all from the most deeply personal to commercial secrets to private religious, medical, and political conversations as well as with their lawyers and accountants, political to intimate conversations between couples married and not and the millions of other types of perfectly legal totally private and personal conversations in which everyone in the United States should be able to engage with the expectation of the right to privacy being absolutely recognized and respected by the State whose morally bankrupt criminal snoops otherwise belong in prison.
       That expectation is inherent given the understanding of for what Americans have fought and died to live in a country with a government constrained and respectful of laws rather than one that routinely criminally misbehaves as a matter of course lording over its citizens as if they were the oppressed slaves of a totalitarian state now to the point that finally even America's tech giants are fighting back perhaps soon in court and right now in their research and development efforts after routinely being forced under illegal orders to execute the Government's criminal dirty work against Apple and Google's own clients and customers and then left largely to play the fall guys for these heinous illegal Government-ordered invasions of privacy on a scale so universal as to have come to seem unreal as directed by Government representatives now too young to have fought in anything but phony wars as exemplified by the phony Nixon totally hypocritical insincere losing "war on drugs" dragging on now for 40+ years with no overall progress at all to show for it but rather the establishment of highly violent international crime organizations that are at the point of rivaling the firepower of entire corrupted nations leaving behind a trail countless dead including tens of thousands of innocents and nothing to show but failure failure and misery.
       Though Facelog's Zuckerboy with his ever-evolving schemes to extract from Facebook users as much private information by any means possible with no notice whatsoever until forced to provide it has long been suspected by many of being a CIA operative with a devious brilliance this sick penchant for extracting more information through ever-expanding trickery in his Mugbook service that will "always be free" including using devices such as facial recognition technology and "tagging" and on and on as he relentlessly persists in trying to dupe Americans and persons worldwide into creating their own most intimate files to serve as ready fodder "selfie"-made dossiers for government perusal at its leisure essentially a J. Edgar Hoover sicko romp into Zuckerboy's twisted idea of privacy invasion mugshot heaven with all biographical information including birth, location, family, friends, activities, politics, thoughts, etc. to boot. The European community having a little more context long has not been amused with his twisted antics with its European Union regulators fining his spydom goldmine hundreds of millions of dollars on more than one occasion yet barely even followed in the news it means so little to the bottom line especially as it is probably paid by American taxpayers via the CIA anyway.
       Back in the United States while Zuckerboy no doubt gladly hands it all over to his handlers the other tech giants have become increasingly uneasy with first Yahoo which unsuccessfully sued the U.S. Government for ordering it to turn over clients' private information but did prevail in being able to make the damning case files public.  Unlike Zuckerboy proud to violate the Constitution at every opportunity at the Government's behest provided Zuckerboy even knows or cares what the Constitution is (or rather was), Apple too like Yahoo apparently has had it with playing criminal in the eyes of the American and foreign peoples under orders from the metastasized National Security agencies thus commercially threatening the company at home and especially abroad and yesterday announced the release of the latest generation iPhone which even Apple cannot penetrate once it is in the customer's hands. No backdoor for the suits to sneak into Americans treasure trove of private information which the U.S. Government has come to see as its birthright.
       Now Google long suspected itself of managing Americans private information in collusion with the CIA allegedly with some data centers built side-by-side has turned and also taken aim first organizing resistance to NSA blanket interception and storage of communications and now like Apple in the technology research and development arena announced it also no longer had provided a "backdoor" for the government "suits" to slip inside to snoop around Google's clients' most private information either. So Google although long suspected itself of complicity in the Government's mass surveillance run totally amok of the Constitution (although a big deal was made most likely as a cover story about the resourceful Feds having to crack the code and secretly intercept an uncooperative Google's internal date packet transmissions "on the fly" under yet another novel lame legal theory of legitimacy concocted by U.S. Government "lawyers" no doubt on the condition that whatever latest tortured analysis they had concocted justifying the Government's crimes in advance be locked deep in a vault and never looked at again until fifty years after all involved were dead now also apparently really is fed up as Google now spearheads NSA reform drives and apparently shares Apple's domestic and especially foreign commercial concerns about further even involuntary participation with the government spying on its customers and/or clients and thus made Google's own announcement on the heels of Apple's that its latest generation Android phones likewise could not be penetrated for data even by Google.
      The Feds with their newfound 21st Centuty attitude of total entitlement and apparent perceived immunity from incarceration (for themselves) are apoplectic having sucked at the tit of unconstitutionality for so long and with such impunity that the existing phone warrant requirement (still the law of the land for wired phones last the Ninth Amendment heard) seems to them a quaint relic of the dinosaur age (the 1950's) since the advent of the portable and then cellphone of course meant to them that although the legal reasoning should have been exactly the same and likewise protected such communications the Feds had soon made it clear that if it went through the air rather than a line a telephone conversation involved no expectation of privacy at all. A perfectly tautological argument making no sense whatsoever.
       And that reasoning certainly did become a self-fulfilling prophecy because law enforcement with impunity since routinely has listened in on any such telephone so there sure was no expectation of privacy since law enforcement made sure privacy in such conversations was non-existent. As the Virginia farmboys' parents and ancestors who had themselves once made honest livings and fought to the death for such liberties would say it was a case in which "the horse followed the cart". And the American people allowed this further assault to be perpetrated against their rapidly disappearing core fundamental rights under the Constitution with barely a whimper all for the sake of the instant convenience of pulling a phone from one's pocket and also because they most likely knew no better even if the government would be the third party on the line.
       Readers interested in more detail concerning this latest seemingly ever more rare "last stand" to uphold a constitutional right to privacy here by sure force of technology may refer to the CNN print story below now with a little more context perhaps as to why the FBI grown fat and lazy (at least metaphorically if not in the movies) certainly cannot abide being deprived of the convenience of merely being able to order some tech giant to suck the information out of readers' phones although the FBI apparently still grudgingly recognizes the requirement of some sham of a warrant for data surprisingly acknowledging that any part of the Constitution that protects the American people's rights still even may exist (or so it claims, but the FBI could be lying too).
       However the mere thought of Apple or Google marketing its most recent phones in the face of the FBI's brilliant (for the FBI) argument that like a closet that can NEVER be opened, now by that thought the FBI cannot just abide. The Constitution is said go be a "living document" and sometimes living things just need to die for a while before they can come back. . . . as for example . . . a totalitarian state. The infrastructure of a rigorous democracy ostensibly is still here seemingly visible for all to see although its actual out of sight functionality merely has merely changed a bit. Indeed just as Aldous Huxley predicted.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/politics/fbi-apple-google-privacy/index.html?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

15 September 2014

CREDO Mobile Apple iPhone 6 Two Larger Screens Now Pre-Register Available 26 September 2014 All New Shared Data Plans

   
       15 September 2014, SAN FRANCISCO - CREDO Mobile in the below announcement gives interested readers notice they may now pre-register for Apple iPhone 6 two larger screen sizes available on CREDO Mobile 26 September 2014 also with all new shared data plans. The Ninth Amendment never includes commercial announcements nor advertisements of any type in the body of posts such as this for monetary nor any other type of remuneration whatsoever for the Ninth Amendment nor any person nor entity whatsoever associated with the Ninth Amendment. Such postings are never communicated about with the subject of such postings either before nor after their posting in the Ninth Amendment.

 Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved (no claim to CREDO content)

12 September 2014

Childrens' Tech Screentime Curtailed By Steve Jobs And Many "High-Tech" Executive Parents Who Allow Very Limited Or None At All But For Homework With No Smartphones Until Age 14 Nor Data Plans Until Age 16 And In Any Case "Never" In The Bedroom

       Friday, 12 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board suggests that parents of minor children may be well advised to follow the lead of some of those who should know best including former Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs and many other current top executives of major internet players and their spouses about both educational pitfalls and more immediate real-world dangers that high-tech devices and internet "services" may bring often by stealth into their homes.
       Perhaps surprisingly most of those interviewed in the New York Times article linked below rather than having homes stuffed with iPads and the like instead have recounted rigorous household rules greatly limiting their youths' exposure to "reading" materials other than good old-fashioned paper-bound books, pens and paper particularly when it comes to anything other than legitimately creative endeavors and the necessity for computers in completing homework accompanied by family dinner conversations about current school learning and other areas of knowledge at tables with nary a tech device including screen to be found.
       Most interestingly many parents in top positions at some of the largest and biggest players in tech internet and other such companies completely ban devices and their use that other parents presumably less knowledgeable about the risks they entail for their children freely make available or even encourage as if it were a matter of right of passage to full-blown childhood. Specifically mentioned is the fact that many of these "high-tech" parents will not even allow the use of messaging devices and tech tools which keep a permanent record of personal communications which one day may come back to haunt their children from a time before they knew better than to make them.
        So sorry to Facebook's Zuckerboy, Myspace. Google+, Twitter (whose own top executives vigorously enforce such restrictive rules with their own children), Yahoo, LinkedIn and the hundreds of other such deceptively designated "social media" and e-mail, instant messenger, cellular call and text service privacy invaders and all manner of other commercial exploiters of personal information and communications for their own monetary gain.
       Regardless of whether or not they expressly "knowingly" cooperate their consistently repeated experience would alert anyone but a complete brain-dead idiot that willingly or not they are acting either constructively voluntarily in league with or as total imbecilic tools of their de facto U.S. "national security" partners who repeatedly and incessantly in wholesale criminal violation of privacy laws and other U.S. Constitutional rights and their penumbras in furtherance of their consistently misguided largely completely ineffective in the absence of actual painstaking police work criminal schemes which they bottom line justify by strong-arming what any self-respecting attorney knows or should know are completely convoluted self-serving BS made-to-order contrived bogus "legal" opinions ultimately based on nothing but the ridiculously farcical foundation that the criminal transgressions they endorse in clear violation of the U.S. Constitutional rights they are sworn to uphold can ever be more "compelling" under the U.S. Constitution than the rule of law itself.
       Many high-tech executives if they allow their children any such constantly illegally monitored activities at all allowed only specifically named services such as "Snapchat" which allegedly immediately dispose permanently of any such personal messages as soon as they are sent although based on the Ninth Amendment's experience with the U.S. Government's Executive Branch "national security underworld" we would have to find in this day and age any such assurance to be most highly suspect at best. Something that need be kept private and even for a moment is absorbed into a high-tech device even unconnected to a phone line, the internet or anything else to our understanding must immediately by sledgehammered to bits the size of pebbles burned in a barrel of jet fuel thrown with no outside observation whatsoever into the back of a dumpster on a dark Bedford-Stuyvesant sidestreet immediately emptied into the trash compactor in the back of an armored car converted into a dump truck taken directly to a mob-owned car-crusher after being liberally doused in liquid hazardous radioactive medical waste before being buried under hundreds of tons of similar debris piled on a half-mile long barge bound directly to China where it is permanently disposed of under a concrete highway along with the remains of the Twin Towers in an active volcanic crater.
       For similar reasons if one did not heed the example of these high-tech executives' universal warning to keep all such "high-tech" devices out of one's children's bedrooms we certainly would suggest keeping any computer camera or microphone even supposedly not in use well-covered with duct tape or better yet first with petroleum jelly or otherwise assume whether it is the Russian mafia, the NSA or any of a thousand others working solo or for another "outfit" that some creepy criminal geek working for whichever may well be watching and listening to one's under-age daughter talking about her parents, changing her clothes, sitting on the toilet, or worse....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

16 August 2014

CREDO Mobile Offer Free Upgrade To Apple iPhone 5c With Two-Year Contract Plus $350 Per Line Other Contracts' Buyout Offer