A.M. Links: Tech Companies Launching Anti-Surveillance Campaign, Rand Paul’s Wife Doesn’t Want Him Running for President, Ukrainian Protesters Topple Lenin Statue

Google, Apple, Microsoft, and
other tech companies are
launching a campaign to call for restrictions on US
surveillance and more transparency about the practices
involved.
The FBI has
reportedly had the ability for years to operate laptop cameras
remotely without the users’ knowledge.
Rand Paul
says his wife doesn’t want him to run for president in 2016 but
that he’s a “very able politician” who should be able to convince
her otherwise.
Democrats
believe Scott Brown may run for Senate again, in New Hampshire,
and want to be prepared for it.
Rick Santorum
compared the fight against apartheid to the one against
Obamacare, saying both were against “great injustices.”
A TSA agent at the St. Louis airport
confiscated the two-inch toy pistol of a cowboy sock monkey,
because, she argued, it could be mistaken for a real gun.
Pro-Europe protesters in the Ukraine
toppled a statue of Vladimir Lenin, a symbol of Russian
nationalism.
Six people were reportedly
admitted into a hospital in central Mexico for radiation
exposure. They may be linked to last week’s hijacking of a truck
carrying radioactive material.