DPI allows companies like AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner to pry open user's trunks, erect new tolls and sell off or bar privileged access based on what they find inside.
Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
Palin respects the family - if it's her family. If it is your family, no such protection is necessary. You will be urged to find home-based child care rather than using the care facility at your workplace, near your school, or with early childhood development professionals.
Bob Geiger | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
Feingold's would require all DHS agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching the contents of laptops or other electronic equipment carried by U.S. citizens.
Leslie Harris | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
This privacy nightmare was born one on the one hand of bad legislation, abusive surveillance tactics and politically-motivated fear mongering, and on dramatic changes in technology on the other.
Jon Raymond | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home
McCain's discussions of technology have mostly to do with floating capital to private companies. That's an economics discussion, not a technological one.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
Palin's family is asking for privacy, yet the policies of Palin's party do not protect the rights of American women to making their own private decisions about unintended pregnancies.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
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?
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Partisan tensions rose to the surface at the close of a Wednesday hearing before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
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?
Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
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.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
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?
Robert Weissman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
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."
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
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.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business
A NY assemblyman has introduced legislation that would shore up Internet users' rapidly deteriorating privacy.
Peter Swire | Posted 02.01.2008 | Business
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.
James Freedman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home
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...
Adam Baer | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
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!
Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillanc...
Ari Melber | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics
Facebook is under mounting public pressure over how the company manages and monetizes the personal information of its 58 million users. Fights over ho...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
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.
Anna Papadopoulos | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media
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.
RJ Eskow | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
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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Timothy Karr | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media