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06/21/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

GAO says FBI’s face recognition technology may be a HUGE privacy violation

(BigGovernment.news) The FBI’s high-tech facial-recognition system, which can now search through databases containing hundreds of millions of photos, has not been sufficiently tested for accuracy nor assessed in a timely way for privacy violations, Congress’s watchdog agency said in a report this week. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Wednesday released a report on what is […]

06/20/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Obamacare premiums will be going up again: Still believe the president is looking out for you?

(BigGovernment.news) We have written often about the pitfalls and perils of Obamacare and honestly, just once we’d like to write something positive about the health care “reform” law. As much as we hate excessive government, we do enjoy seeing legislation and public policy actually benefit the American people. But real life keeps getting in the way and […]

06/17/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Because Congress is AWOL, state and local governments are moving to limit drone use amid rising privacy complaints

(BigGovernment.news) By now you’ve probably seen one of those obnoxious little drones buzzing over your neighborhood and have wondered why it is that an equally obnoxious neighbor gets to violate your privacy at will. Well, you’re not alone. Thing is, lots of people have been wondering the same thing. Also, they have been wondering when Congress was going […]

06/16/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Defending the indefensible: Broke govt. tries to justify funding goofy, meaningless ‘studies’

(BigGovernment.news) You would think that a government racing towards a $20 trillion debt would be looking at every possible way to cut spending and make the most of the taxpayers’ money. And in normal times, that’s what would happen. But we don’t live in normal times anymore, and fiscal responsibility is something that completely eludes nearly every […]

06/15/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Strippers, booze, gambling: Welfare and the high life in Nevada

(BigGovernment.news) Increasingly, after nearly eight years of President Obama – who [unconstitutionally] unilaterally ended work requirements contained in a 1996 welfare reform law – America has become the land of the freebie rather than the land of opportunity, and one state that epitomizes this is the home state of Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid. As reported by […]

06/14/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Here is another example of how government is using medical databases to invade your privacy

(BigGovernment.news) Millions of Americans opposed to Obamacare were especially suspicious over provisions that pushed healthcare providers into placing every patient’s medical information into online databases. One of the main reasons for the objection is that such data would then be subject to hacking – a phenomenon which has already happened more than a few times […]

06/13/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

It’s about time: Congress moving to check power of the federal bureaucracy

(BigGovernment.news) Millions of us are wondering why the Congress didn’t act on this before, but the Age of Obama – during which our president has openly and unconstitutionally shunned the Legislative Branch in order to push his own policy agenda – has obviously proven to be too much for many lawmakers to handle. That helps explain […]

06/10/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

The spiraling cost of big activist government, in this one little example

(BigGovernment.news) If you ever doubted the financial impact that Left-wing ideology has on the price of government, this should clear things up for you. Socialist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t satisfied with shoving his transgender agenda down everyone’s throat; he wants to make New Yorkers pay a heavy price for it as […]

06/09/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

A majority of Americans favor legalizing pot – so what is stopping Congress from doing so?

(BigGovernment.news) Smoking marijuana may not be for you and that’s okay, but a growing number of Americans think that the law should be changed to make it legal in all 50 states and all U.S. territories. A majority, in fact, according to a new survey. The Washington Times reports: A majority of U.S. voters support […]

06/08/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

‘Ban the box’ movement having the unintended consequence of hurting employment for minorities

(BigGovernment.news) Left-wing political advocacy types including President Obama are touting the so-called “ban the box” movement – ordinances that ban employers from asking a job applicant about his or her past criminal history – as the latest social justice policy du jour, but in fact new research suggests that, as usual, their intended goal of boosting opportunities for past lawbreakers is […]

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