Informational Privacy: From Panem to the Present
Why social media increasingly raises privacy concerns.
On the Newsstand:Privacy
The Court, Privacy, and GPS Tracking
The government tracking citizens with GPS presents 1984-esque possibilities for the Supreme Court to ponder.
Weighing In: Privatizing Public Speech
Caroline Cox misunderstands the argument against the Court's ruling in Snyder v. Phelps
Online Privacy, Google and Facebook
Google’s court case in Italy is a big deal. As everyone is saying, if Google can be held accountable for the content it syndicates on its site, that would change the way that information flows through the internet forever. It could close the whole thing down. I thought I’d take this opportunity to throw out some loosely connected ideas on ... Read More
Surprise!
It’s hardly surprising to learn that after Congress demonstrated in 2008 that there were no penalties for overstepping the bounds of domestic spying, the NSA continued to overstep the bounds of domestic spying. In the summer of 2008, Congress passed the FISA Act, which immunized telecom carriers for their past violations of privacy, and ex post facto legalized some of ... Read More
Not in Kansas Any More
New role, new tactics for Kathleen Sebelius In December 1999, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius expressed concern that new privacy rules imposed by the federal department of Health and Human Services would undercut state jurisdiction over health information. Federal bureaucracy, she argued, could not handle enforcement as nimbly as the states. A decade later, Sebelius will have the opportunity to ... Read More
Running on Empty
Does America’s transportation policy need an overhaul? “The nation faces a crisis. Our surface transportation system has deteriorated to such a degree that our safety, economic competitiveness, and quality of life are at risk.” So begins the Feb. 2009 report of the National Surface Transportation Financing Commission (NSTFC), tasked by Congress to develop a new framework for funding America’s transportation ... Read More
Blind Trust No Longer
Exploring the policies of the NSA
A Type of Justice
Judicial experience and Supreme Court nominations
A Brave New World
This is the future of politics, and I don’t know if I like it. It’s a site called “Eightmaps”, and is a mashup of Google Maps and the Yes on Prop 8 donor list. It shows, by residence or place of business, where donors live, their name, and how much they donated. On the one hand, this is nothing but ... Read More
