List/Grid Tag Archives: Privacy
Being watched at a mall near you … you!
For years, malls have used various techniques to determine what entrance people use, what stores they go to, and what stores they pass by. Now, the technology exists to track…
Connecticut should not make pistol permit information available to public
Connecticut state law does not allow pistol permit records to be available to the public. Many states do allow this information to be released, and some media outlets – in…
Student laptops deliver thousands of private images to school district
Remember the story from February where a high school sophomore and his family alleged the school district was using laptop Web cameras – issued by the school – to monitor…
School secretly monitors students at home via webcam
Is big teacher watching your kids at home? That’s the question of the day, as the Lower Merion School District admits they had the ability to access webcams – without…
Justice Department demands list of Web site visitors – or visitor?
Well this is somewhat interesting. The United States District Court in southern Indiana demanded information on all IP traffic to and from indymedia.us on June 25, 2008. They want subscriber…
Little brother is watching, too…
What does this story mean? Probably that Orwell just wasn’t paranoid enough… Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as ‘citizen snoopers’, the Daily Mail…
PETA and Michael Vick
One of the things you can always count on PETA to be in entertaining, especially if you like your humor dark and your protesters naked. Admittedly, they’re probably best known…
“Big Brother” is watching…
What is the difference between a citizen and a subject? Personally, my reflexive answer is freedom of one sort or another — the right to bear arms, the right to…
Wall Street Witch Hunts
Democrats in Congress usually have a “thing” for privacy rights. Listening in on international phone-calls were one end of the conversation is a known or suspected terrorist? That’s bad. However,…
Taxes, privacy and liberalism
Remember all that Democratic whining about wanting for people to drive more fuel-efficient cars? Here comes the other shoe… “A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had…
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