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Preventing the Next Privacy Disaster

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Consumer Privacy, Choicepoint, Internet Privacy, Cabinent, 100 Days, Washington, Disaster, Congress, Ftc, Presidency, Privacy, Commission, Election, Legislation, Law, Technology, Politics News
Leslie Harris

The next president steps into a landscape where the capacity to collect, store and exchange sensitive personal information has outgrown the legal framework that protects that information.

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AT&T Promises Not To Spy on You... Sort of

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: AT&T, Free Press, Fisa, Internet Freedom, Privacy, Net Neutrality, Verizon, Media News
Timothy Karr

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.

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It's Time For Palin To Explain It All

Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Couric, Women, Vice President, Roe v Wade, Alaska, Debate, Obama Sex Education, Joe Biden Vice President, Joe Biden, Policy, Privacy, Gibson, Sarah Palin, Special Needs, Sex Education, Palin Policy, Child Care, Voters, Palin, Health Care, Family, Home News
Susan Kelley-Stamerra

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.

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A Technology Agenda for the Next Administration

Leslie Harris | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Internet, Transition, Surveillance, Fisa, Security, President, Election, Privacy, 2008 Election, Politics News
Leslie Harris

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.

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Technology: Obama Wants A CTO; McCain, Risk Capital

Jon Raymond | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Presidential Election 2008, Wall Street, Mccain, Economy, Cto, Obama, Technology, Policy, Privacy, Home News
Jon Raymond

McCain's discussions of technology have mostly to do with floating capital to private companies. That's an economics discussion, not a technological one.

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Bristol Palin, Mary Cheney and the Limits of Family Privacy

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Teenage Pregnancy, Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Abstinence Only, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin, Mary Cheney, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, Privacy, Bristol Palin, Marriage Equality, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Rev. Debra Haffner

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.

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Hands Off My Laptop, iPod, Cellphone, Pager, Beeper, Flash Drive, Pocket Litter, First Born (OK, Not My First Born)

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

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

Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.

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Keep Your Hands Off My Laptop

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.26.2008 | 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 07.11.2008 | 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 07.03.2008 | 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 07.02.2008 | 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 04.30.2008 | 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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Ron Paul: Roe v. Wade a 'Big Mistake'

James Freedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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US Spychief's Plan To Monitor Internet Raises Major Privacy Issues

Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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Top Intelligence Official: Public Needs To Change Their Definition Of Privacy

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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Facebook: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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Report: U.S. Sends Most Spam Mail

ZDNet | Marcus Browne | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Spammers, Privacy, Sophos, Spam, US Spam, Business News

The U.S. remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which on Friday released its quarterly report on the world's top spam...

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Vegas Becomes The Capital Of High-Tech Surveillance

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Government Surveillance, Us Surveillance, Casinos, Counterterrorism, Privacy, Las Vegas, Home News

This city, famous for being America's playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the...

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