Right to Privacy

BREAKING ECONOMIC NEWS: GOP to Sponsor Innovative Women's Program

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Equal Rights, Economic Growth and Development, Pregancy, Right to Privacy, War on Women, Health Care, Mitt Romney, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Sponsor a Uterus, Barack Obama, Video, Comedy News

Anonymous sources think that the GOP is seriously considering officially adopting the Sponsor a Uterus program as part of their economic stimulus agenda.

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A Privacy Right to Believe In

James B. Rule | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Consumer Protections, Right to Privacy, Privacy, Technology News

Unless you've spent the new millennium on another planet, you've noticed that details of your personal life are circulating more and more freely. The uses of these details often bring rude surprises.

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How Mitt Romney Threatens Women's (and Men's) Legal Right to Birth Control and Privacy in the Bedroom

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Republican Primary, Mitt Romney Birth Control, Right to Privacy, Roe v. Wade, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Santorum Birth Control, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Griswold v Connecticut, Reversing Roe vs Wade, Republican Debate, Mitt Romney Abortion, Politics News

If the next president is a Republican who gets to replace the ailing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a judicial conservative, the right to privacy could be a thing of the past and states could enact laws which would pass Constitutional muster restricting access to birth control.

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Wait, Aren't Family Homes Off-Limits?

Jacoba Urist | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Parenting News, Politics News, Millionaire's March, Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Right to Privacy, Wealth Disparity, Occupy Wall Street, Jaime Dimon, Ruport Murdoch, New York News, Income Disparity, New York Protests, New York News

Under all of Occupy Wall Street's signage, there's a fundamental truth we can't afford to ignore: the growing income gap in this country is a big problem for everybody. Yesterday, though, they crossed a line in the sand.

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You Have No Rights

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, Right to Privacy, War on Terror, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Civil Rights, Yaser Hamdi, Declaration of Independence, Freedom of Speech, Patriot Act, Anwar Al Awlaki, Human Rights, Jose Padilla, Enhanced Interrogations, Japanese, Constitution, World War II, Politics News

We talk about rights to privacy regularly but few people can point to what exactly those rights are. More importantly, what guarantees those rights? What guarantees us that our rights will not be infringed upon? The answer is... nothing!

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Media Circus and the Roman Arena

Carlo Strenger | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Male Sexual Behavior, Presumption of Innocence, Right to Privacy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, Freedom of Press, Media, French Presidential Election, Feminism, Media News

While the damage to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's life and career cannot be mended, he now stands to be publicly vindicated, and there is a good chance that, at least in France, his honor will be restored. Not all victims of the press's hunger for scandal are as lucky.

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Fretting Over Internet Privacy? Relax, You Don't Have to Opt-In to Big Brother.

Val Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Ah, privacy. Is it a relic of the 20th century? Today's society seems rather conflicted on the topic. In the afternoon, we rail at marketers and the l...

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Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surveillance-State, Strip Searches, TSA Security, Fourth Amendment, Right to Privacy, Michael Roberts, Whole-Body-Scanners, Politics News

Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old airline pilot, is pitting himself against the American surveillance state and putting everything on the line for freedom because of it.

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Pope vs. Doctors: How New Vatican Orthodoxy Undermines Medical Ethics and Imperils Your Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Directive 58, Abortion, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Philadelphia, Sterilization, Law, Right to Privacy, Assisted Suicide, Abortion Rights, Catholic Bishops, Pennsylvania, Euthanasia, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Francis George, Catholic Church, Religion, Liberty, Human Rights, The Vatican, Pluralism, Freedom, Ethics, Hospitals, Contraception, Morality, Doctors, Birth Control, Condoms, Bioethics, Pope, Medicine, Politics News

By challenging this longstanding system of benign neglect, bishops and zealots may believe they will achieve ideological purity. What they are actually doing is jeopardizing Catholic hospitals and public health.

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"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Search, Newspapers, Aol, Chrome, Free Content, Content, Copyright, Browser, Mosaic, Eric Schmidt, Adwords, Netscape, Search Engines, Chris Anderson, China, Internet Service Providers, Privacy, Adsense, Google Phone, Sergey Brin, Pagerank, Internet, Portals, Yahoo, Advertising Industry, Gmail, Publishing Industry, Google Android, Richard L. Brandt, Right to Privacy, Search Algorithms, Homepage, Inisde Larry and Sergey's Brain, Goto, Larry Page, Baidu, Magazines, Google, Microsoft, Google Book Settlement, Browser Wars, Death of Newspapers, Bill Gates, Facebook, China Human Rights, Cookies, Accenture, Internet Privacy, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Google Privacy, Iphone, Magazine Advertising, Privacy Concerns, Android, Censorship, Google Algorithm, Book Reviews, Don't Be Evil, Books, Silicon Valley, Books News

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

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Is Jim DeMint Right in More Ways Than One?

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Confirmation, Right to Privacy, Air Travel, National Security, Demint, Tsa, Politics News

Perhaps DeMint is correct when he says that Senators need to think a little bit longer before they decide whether to confirm Errol Southers as the best person to head the TSA.

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Nursing Home Sex: You've Gotta Fight for Your Rights

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sexual Rights, Nursing Homes Sex, Privacy, Well-Being, Sex, Elderly, Bill of Rights, Right to Privacy, Exhibitionism, Privacy Rights, Nursing Homes, Sexuality, Preparing-for-Old-Age, Old Age, Healthy Living News

Demand that you or your loved one be given the right to maintain sexual independence, stressing that it's not inappropriate or offensive for people to be sexually active in their later years.

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Era of Greater Internet Privacy At Hand

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Internet Privacy, Right to Privacy, Privacy, Media News

How hard is it really to put a simple "anonymize me" button on its search engine page to give users the choice of how to control their data?

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Goat "Condoms" Save Kenyan Herds

BBC | Ruth Nesoba | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Right to Privacy, Goat Condoms, Contraception, Goats, Animals, Condoms, Green News

Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought. Th...

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FISA: It's Time For Some Accountability

Kevin Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FISA Bill, Wiretapping Immunity, Right to Privacy, Phone Privacy, Wiretapping, Telecommunications, Fisa, Phone Wiretapping Information, Fisa Wiretapping, Politics News

I cannot sit idly by and watch Congress cut backroom deals on warrantless wiretapping. I urge all Congresspeople of conscious to reject any bill that would grant big telephone companies immunity.

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More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fbi, FBI Surveillance, Right to Privacy, National Security Letters, Privacy Abuses, Justice Department, Bush Justice Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, th...

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