Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2013

Book review - Enemies Within

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When mainstream journalists muster up the courage to criticize the national security state they can't seem to let go of the notion that ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Smoke and mirrors, please

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It's a strategy as old as politics itself - whenever you get caught up in a shitstorm of bad publicity over a policy, go with the old mi...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

House gives NSA data mining operation a thumbs up

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Think the Fourth Amendment still means anything? Think you should be free from government intrusion into your private affairs absent probabl...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Playing post office

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So you plan on going "off the grid" in order to keep the government from keeping tabs on you. Los federales  are storing all the m...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Hanging on the telephone (metadata records)

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It all started out innocently enough. A woman was robbed. She remembered the car the robber was driving. She started receiving threatening a...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

At least it's not a needle

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Police arrest suspect. Police take suspect to jail. Police take suspect's fingerprints when he is booked in for identification purposes....
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Time to change the model

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Our current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is based upon what now must seem like a quaint concept - the reasonable expectation of privacy. I...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Shucking the mark of the beast

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How ironic it was that Northside ISD in San Antonio decided to put radio tracking devices on students' ID badges. It's hard to bel...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"A cell phone is not a pair of pants"

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Anthony Granville got in trouble at school one day. I don't know for what. But he found himself with his hands cuffed behind his back an...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Droning on and on and on

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It's always amusing when a right wing-nut suddenly becomes a champion of privacy and the citizenry's right to be left alone by the g...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

I got my "i" on you

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We live in an age where we are encouraged to spy on our neighbors, co-workers and friends. It's all about conformity and ratting out a...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

The government knows best

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The State of Texas has decided it is qualified to tell doctors how to run their practices and what to tell their patients. According to a p...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Prying eyes in the desert

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Had up to here with airport security, TSA, drones and government data-mining of phone calls and e-mail? Well, the latest device in the gover...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Death by a thousand cuts?

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Last week Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Jr. ordered Twitter to hand over three months worth of Occupy Wall Street protes...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Congress mulling bill to extend warrantless wiretapping

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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and it laid out the rules by which the govern...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Another assault on privacy

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It's just never enough. No matter how much data the US government can collect on citizens, there is always more data just out of reach. ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Mussolini made the trains run on time

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It was bad enough when airport harassment security was handed over to the newly-formed TSA following the attacks on 9/11. Of course the rea...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bennett for Court of Criminal Appeals

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If there was ever a place that needed a proponent of limited government it is the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In no other area is the n...
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Who really wants limited government?

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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and every other wingnut and wanna-be wingnut preach that government is too big. That's it'...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Using the children as a shield

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What could possibly go wrong when our legislators set out to do "something for the children?" I mean, there's no way that Co...