San Cisco are an Australian surf rock and indie pop band. Their four original members, Jordi Davieson, Josh Biondillo, Scarlett Stevens, and Nick Gardner, grouped together in 2009 in Fremantle, Western Australia under the name “King George.”

New member/longtime friend, Jennifer Aslett, joined the band in 2018 following bassist Nick’s departure. Jennifer left the next year, leaving the band as a three-piece.

In a bold move, eight major tech companies, including Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, wrote an open letter to members of the US Government arguing that NSA surveillance undermines the freedom and violates the privacy of US citizens. In their newly launched website, the companies outline 5 major steps that they urge the US government to take to protect the privacy of its citizens and the free flow of information.

Troy White is the CEO of Wytehouse Marketing, a political marketing firm that was secretly employed in the 2008 Democratic primaries by Jeffrey E. Thompson, a powerful DC businessman in the center of a corruption scandal,in support of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in at least four states.

Here' White admits to misfiling his taxes to hide the over half a million dollars paid to him–in what very likely would have been a violation of campaign funding laws.

Long before Edward Snowden began releasing documents to news outlets detailing the extent of the US government’s surveillance programs, then Congressman Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts was requesting that cellphone carriers reveal the US government’s requests for data on their customers. Now a Senator, Markey is continuing to push carriers to reveal even more information about what information the government collects and how.

This letter Verizon, one of eight sent to the country’s major cellphone service providers, clearly outlines these questions.

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