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tonight, for your vacation. Your location right now and where you’ve been recently. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that there are many things that government – whether liberal or conservative, federal or local – has no business knowing about you. Nor is the Apple case a concern only to smartphone users in the US. “Authoritarian regimes around the world are salivating at the prospect of the FBI winning this order,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Nate Cardozo said in a PBS NewsHour interview. “If Apple creates the master key that the FBI has demanded that they create, governments around the world are going to be demanding the same access.” The issue, says the Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims, is “simply this: Do we want our government, and the governments of other countries, to have the ability to compel Apple – or any technology company – to grant access to any of our data they request?” “Most ominously,” the Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez wrote in Time magazine, “the effects of a win for the FBI in this case almost certainly won’t be limited to smartphones.” “Don’t just think of the webcam and microphone on your laptop,” wrote Sanchez, “but voice-control devices like Amazon’s Echo, smart televisions, network routers, wearable computing devices and even Hello Barbie.” This isn’t a case of getting into one terrorist’s cellphone; it’s “whether technology companies can be conscripted to undermine global trust in our computing devices,” Sanchez warned. “That’s a staggeringly high price to pay for any investigation.” And it’s a staggeringly big attack on privacy – an attack, as Tim Cook said in his letter to Apple customers, on “the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.” The FBI’s request related to Farook’s cellphone is expected to end up before the Supreme Court. But Apple and other critics say that Congress, not the courts, should define the line between national security and individual privacy. Given the conservatism of Congress and the national obsession with security, though, I’m not sure that offers much consolation. And can’t you just see what a Donald Trump administration would do on this issue?
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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
ROCLA holding gala
The Rochester Committee on Latin America will hold its annual Rice and Beans Gala Dinner and White Dove Awards on Friday, March 11. ROCLA will honor Cecilia Moran-Santos and the Center for Justice and Accountability for human rights activism and Once Again Nut Butter Collective, a Nunda, NY firm. The employee-owned business partners with Nicaraguan coop farmers. The event will be held at Gates Presbyterian Church, 1049 Wegman Road, at 5:15 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $100. Reservations: Kathy Goforth,
Kathy.goforth@rochester. rr.com.
Transportation is the subject of lecture
The Community Design Center Rochester will present “Transportation as the Leveler” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10. The lecture’s speakers are Arizona State Senator Steve Farley and Jacky Grimshaw, vice president with the Center for Neighborhood Technology. They will discuss how improvements in public transit options in cities such as Tucson, Chicago, and Memphis helped to improve access to jobs, health care, and education. And they’ll talk about how a more robust transit system could positively change Rochester. The lecture will be held at
the Gleason Auditorium, 1000 University Avenue. Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors 65 and older; students admitted free with valid identification. Contact: www. cdcrochester.org/reshapingrochester.html.
Forums will address school projects The Rochester City School District will hold two community forums on its $1.2 billion schools modernization program on Thursday, March 3. The first forum will be held at School 15 and is on that school’s remodeling plans. The meeting will be held at 595 Upper Falls Boulevard at 5:30 p.m. The second meeting involves the plans for School 22’s remodeling. The meeting will be held at 950 Norton Street at 7 p.m.
Correcting ourselves Last week’s article, “Carousel panel going to RMSC,” incorrectly stated that the Rochester Museum and Science Center has agreed to house a controversial panel from the carousel at Ontario Beach Park. But plans for the panel haven’t been settled, according to city officials.