Privacy

Keep Your Hands Off My Laptop

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Laptop, Progressive, Constitution, Customs, Border, Airports, Drdigipol, Privacy, Illegal Search and Seizure, TSA-Friendly Laptop Bag, Airport Security, Fourth Amendment, Politics News
Alan Rosenblatt

As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?

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Why We Don't Mind Uncle Sam Tapping Our Phones

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Warrantless Wiretapping, Humor, AT&T, The Inner Life, Privacy, FISA Bill, Phone, Satire, Political Humor, Wiretapping, Telephones, Fisa, Eavesdropping Program, Telecom Immunity, Telephone Companies Surveillance, David Letterman, Technology, Schwartzberg, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

I guess it makes more sense to celebrate our freedom from government tyranny and interference before we give them the okay to monitor our private conversations. No one wants to be a party pooper.

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Seth Colter Walls

Senators In Heated Clash Over Bush's Privacy Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Privacy, Homeland Security, Sam Brownback, Politics News

Partisan tensions rose to the surface at the close of a Wednesday hearing before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and...

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Another Scary Government Program: the Government Gets to Seize Your Electronic Gear at the Border

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Search and Seizure, Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Intrusive Government, Privacy Invasions, Seizures, Invasions of Privacy, Invasion of Privacy, Electronic Data, Electronic Privacy, Privacy, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

There's no legal difference between looking through your backpack and seizing your electronic data in the US. This is the stuff of the Cold War Soviet Union, right? Or maybe a third world dictatorship?

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Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Secrecy, Transparency, Corporate Welfare, Municipal Wireless, First Amendment, National Security, Rule of Law, Oversight, Fisa, Surveillance, Watergate, Executive Power, Privacy, Domestic Spying, NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, Bear Stearns, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

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Electronic Dragnet for Undocumented Nets Citizens

Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right to Privacy, Immigration, Social Security, Electronic Surveillance, Privacy, Dhs, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

Two hours after starting his new job at a food processing plant in 2006, Fernando Tinoco got fired as a result of a new program designed to identify undocumented workers.

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"Some Say" Ignorance Is Bliss

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, U.S. Debt, John McCain, Poverty, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Pathological Politics, John Adams, Democracy, Media, Hillalry Clinton, Barack Obama, Privacy, Media News
Kathleen Reardon

With the obligation of inheriting the beacon of democracy nourished and protected by those who came before us, why are we allowing ourselves to be ill-served by so many in the media?

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How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble

Robert Weissman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Lobbyists, Revolving Door, Antitrust, Commercialism, Ftc, Privacy, P&G, Majoras, Business News
Robert Weissman

The deep corruption inside the beltway is not the illegal, Jack-Abramoff stuff. The real corrupting influences are the things that are legal, the things that Washington insiders view as just "how things work."

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The Passport Breach: Hey, Accidents Happens

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Privacy, Clinton Passport Breach, McCain Passport, Hillary Clinton Passport Breach, Barack Obama Passport, Clinton Passport, State Department Obama Passport, Barack Obama, Privacy, Barack Obama Passport Breach, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

It's one thing to turn a blind eye at "the other guy" being spied on by an administration waving its faux-flag of patriotism. It's another when you realized that you are now the other guy. We all are. We all have been.

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NY Online Privacy Push

Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Online Advertising, New York State, Privacy, NY Internet Privacy, Internet, Internet Privacy, NY Privacy, Richard Brodsky, Business News
Jonathan Handel

A NY assemblyman has introduced legislation that would shore up Internet users' rapidly deteriorating privacy.

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Privacy Key to Yahoo Merger; Microsoft Bid Must Ensure Safeguards

Peter Swire | Posted 02.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo Merger, Privacy, Microsoft Yahoo Privacy, Microsoft, Yahoo, Business News
Peter Swire

Although more issues may emerge over time, the market for search looks like it will be the focus of privacy issues of the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo merger.

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Ron Paul: Roe v. Wade a 'Big Mistake'

James Freedman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Abortion, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election, Privacy, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Ron Paul, Offthebus, Ron Paul Pro Life, Ron Paul Abortion Rights, Home News
James Freedman

Before getting elected to Congress in the late 1970s, Paul delivered more than 4,000 babies as an OB/GYN. When it comes to abortion, he believes the m...

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ACLU Does It for the Thrill of Privacy

Adam Baer | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Privacy, Larry Craig, Aclu, Public, Politics News
Adam Baer

Today the AP reports the ACLU is arguing that all those adventuresome spirits who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Public Bathrooms!

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US Spychief's Plan To Monitor Internet Raises Major Privacy Issues

Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Cyberspace, Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Spy Chief, Privacy, Politics News

Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillanc...

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Facebook & The National Surveillance State

Ari Melber | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Surveillance, Facebook, Privacy, Politics News
Ari Melber

Facebook is under mounting public pressure over how the company manages and monetizes the personal information of its 58 million users. Fights over ho...

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Friday Talking Points [Vol. 12]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: White House, Gwen Ifill, Pat Leahy, Fisa, Rumsfeld, Telecom, Witch Hunt, Fatuous, John Kerry, Midotw, Contempt of Congress, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Reid, News Hour, Special Counsel, Witch, Warrantless Wiretapping, Oversight, Democrat, Edwards, Congress, Joe Biden, Richardson, Justice Department, Democrats, Investigation, Mddotw, Interrogation Tapes, Wiretapping, Alberto Gonzales, Nixon, Up or Down Vote, Wiccan, Cocaine, Stuart Bowen, Cloture, Cia, Cheney, Filibuster, Iraq, Chris Dodd, Obama, Privacy, Bush, Pelosi, 10-Year War, Continuing Resolution, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Scooter Libby, Hex, Inspector General, Judiciary Committee, Specter, Attorney General, Contempt, Robert Wexler, CIA Tapes, Roadblock Republicans, Executive Branch, Independent Counsel, Wicca, Telecommunication, Torture, King George, Grassley, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.

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There's a Reason it's Called "Social" Media

Anna Papadopoulos | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

Read More: Privacy Groups, Facebook, Social Networking, Privacy, Media News
Anna Papadopoulos

Privacy groups are at it again. This time they are going after social networking sites like Facebook, filing complaints about the network's new social-targeting advertising platform.

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What Celebrities Can Teach Us About Healthcare: George Clooney Edition

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Clooney, Newt Gingrich, Insurance, Health Reform, Privacy, Healthcare, Medical Records, MSZMP, Hungary, Hungarian Communist Party, Clooney Motorcycle Accident, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News
RJ Eskow

What do Clooney, Gingrich, and the Hungarian Communist Party have in common? They each have something to teach us about health care information, privacy, and public confidence.

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Ministry Of Truth Helpfully Redefines Privacy

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: 1984, National Intelligence, Private, George Orwell, Wiretapping, Wiretap, Donald Kerr, Ministry of Truth, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak, Big Brother, Privacy, Electronic Freedom Foundation, Minitru, Eff, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The new meaning of the word "privacy" will now be (according to MiniTru): "the secure feeling citizens get by knowing that their government is collecting and protecting their personal data."

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Top Intelligence Official: Public Needs To Change Their Definition Of Privacy

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Privacy, Wiretapping, Politics News

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, sa...

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Privacy vs. Security? Privacy.

Marc Rotenberg | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Government Spying, Government Surveillance, Us Surveillance, Spying, Constitutional Rights, 9-11 Commission, Telephone Companies Surveillance, Security, Privacy, Politics News
Marc Rotenberg

We are being asked to become a weak nation that accepts surveillance without accountability that cannot defend both security and freedom.

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Privacy vs. Security? Security.

K.A. Taipale | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Security, Privacy, Politics News
K.A. Taipale

Much of the public debate seems to take place within an unexamined mythology of privacy that deifies absolute secrecy and allows no tolerance for even innocuous intrusions or inevitable errors.

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Facebook: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.08.2007 | Living

Read More: Modern Life, Facebook, Ex-Girlfriend, Creep-From-College, Privacy, Ex-Boyfriend, Myspace, Living News
Lesley M. M. Blume

The question becomes: sometimes isn't it better just to let sleeping dogs lie?

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Release 0.9: Disclosure 2.0

Esther Dyson | Posted 11.04.2007 | Media

Read More: Regulation, Identity, User Data Control, Disclosure, Ftc, Privacy, Media News
Esther Dyson

Over the years, marketers have become better and better at collecting data on individuals, recognizing them, classifying them and sending them personalized, and even personal messages.

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A Salute to Sarkozy: In Defense of Privacy

Alina Emen | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Leslie Stahl, Celebrities Privacy, French, Sarko L'Americain, Divorce, Monica Lewinsky, Paul McCartney Heather Mills, Privacy, Nicolas Sarkozy, Heather Mills, French President Divorce, Sarkozy Divorce, Mr. And Mrs. Sarkozy, Heather Mills Therapy Tapes, French President, Lewinsky Scandal, Clinton Lewinsky, Politics News
Alina Emen

It hurts the dignity of not just the individual, but the society as a whole as we become more and more inured to crass exposés.

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