Privacy

Privacy, Please

Apr 23, 2014 | Privacy

You can decide whether to use Facebook or let private sites install cookies to track your info. Johansson didn’t give that hacker permission to steal her photos. And I didn’t give the NSA — not to mention the IRS, FBI, etc. — permission to access my information.

NSA Spying, Economic Intervention, and Legal Positivism

Aug 22, 2013 | LAW, Privacy

Legal Positivism has slowly eaten away the Constitution and individual rights.

Obama’s Whistleblower Protection of Convenience

Aug 3, 2013 | Privacy

“Hope and change” were never about ideals or principles. They were about power.

Chris Christie vs. the Constitution

Jul 28, 2013 | Privacy

Christie, like most career politicians, has unlimited faith in unlimited government.

Edward Snowden: Traitor by What Definition?

Jul 2, 2013 | Privacy

It’s now an undisputed fact, in the minds of our esteemed government officials: Edward Snowden, the man who exposed the U.S. government for spying on private, law-abiding citizens, is a traitor. Exactly how did this label get smuggled in to the whole controversy about...

Edward Snowden vs. Fascism

Jun 23, 2013 | Classic, Fascism, Privacy

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-CIA technician who has come forward to self-identify as the source for news reports about massive...

NSA, Obama and The Loss of Trust

Jun 18, 2013 | Privacy

Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess. The...

Obama Exploits a Compliant America

Jun 14, 2013 | Privacy

“You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re going to have to make some choices as a society.” So says Barack Obama, in defense of his administration’s policy of monitoring the phone...

Alan Dershowitz vs. Ben Franklin

Jun 12, 2013 | Privacy

The collection of millions of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Agency is a necessary compromise on privacy —but should be monitored to keep it from being abused, renowned civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz says. “Even Benjamin Franklin...