Richard Adhikari: Who's Watching The FBI Watchers?

New technology offers new opportunity for abuse. The FBI soon will begin offering client software for its nationwide facial recognition database at no charge to law enforcement agencies in the United States. This is the fourth element in its seven-increment Next Generation Identification Program. The facial recognition system was deployed ... MORE

The Inevitable Future Of Electronic Medical Records

by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD.    For the past year now I’ve been using an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and believe the writing is on the wall. These computerized medical records are not about improving health care; they are about control of both the physician and patient. Beginning in 2013, doctors who don’t prescribe electronically will be penalized financially.   ... MORE

R. Dennis Hansen: Losing Our Privacy At A Rapid Rate

Not just the night has a thousand eyes.     I work for a resource management agency. Last year, I attended a government-mandated class on the use of computers during work hours. The instructor pointed out that emails that leave our agency’s network are being scanned for content. Our Internet usage is also being monitored. What they are looking     ... MORE

Where Is The Outrage Over Domestic Use Of Drones?

by Andrew Napolitano.   For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government's use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if--had drones existed at the time--King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom   ... MORE

Sarah Burge: Vast Police Databases Raise Privacy Concerns

Databases track movements of law-abiding citizens.    Police departments across the Inland area have embraced a new technology that helps officers on patrol to locate stolen cars, felony suspects and more by instantly scanning the license plate numbers of passing cars. But as these license-plate scanners become more common here and across the  ... MORE

Phyllis Schlafly: It's None Of The Government's Business

Individuals forced to feed personal info to government. What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information. The use of ... MORE

ObamaCare Patient-Dumping, Privacy Meddling & Cronyism

by Michelle Malkin.   The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this: A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama’s cronies to build a ... MORE

Darlene Storm: Your Car May Used Against You In Court

There is a little black box spy hiding in your vehicle. When you are car shopping, how many times has a salesman pitched the 15 to 30 specific data elements constantly being collected by the car's black box as you drive? Probably never, but there's electronic data everywhere and that includes your car collecting digital evidence which might turn into the star witness ... MORE

CIPSA Lacks Protections For Individual Rights

by Sharon Bradford Franklin.    Congress should not pass CISPA. Although a carefully crafted information-sharing program that includes robust privacy safeguards could be an effective approach to cybersecurity, CISPA lacks such protections for individual rights. CISPA would appropriately authorize the federal government to share cyberthreat intelligence ... MORE

Brian Sussman: Big Brother's Next Target: Your Car

The next step toward eco-tyranny. Many are quite concerned about Senate Bill 1813, a massive piece of legislation supposedly devoted to transportation issues.  Besides including a provision allowing the IRS the power to revoke passports belonging to those who are delinquent with tax debt in excess of $50,000, it appears that the potential law may be ... MORE

Scott Lemieux: All The State's Spies

Will crony capitalists become government spies?     Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government, it presents serious dangers to individual privacy. The most important parts of ... MORE

Nat Hentoff: Sweet Land Of Liberty

We can't hide from the National Security Agency.    How many Americans know that as of September 2013, all of us engaged in any form of communication will be subject -- with the approval of President Barack Obama and the silence of Congress -- to continuous tracking and databasing by the National Security Agency? As I reported here last week, the  ... MORE

Declan McCullagh: Internet Provider Pledges Privacy First

Step aside, AT&T and Verizon.     Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a    ... MORE

VIDEO: Smart Meters To Monitor A Nation Of Sheep

We are now electromagnetic radiation guinea pigs.

Andrew Napolitano: Is The CIA In Your Kitchen?

The right to be left alone under relentless assault. If this question had been asked by a fictional character in a spy thriller, it might intrigue you, but you wouldn't imagine that it could be true in reality. If the Constitution means what it says, you wouldn't even consider the plausibility of an affirmative answer. After all, the Fourth Amendment to the       ... MORE

Everybody's A Target In The American Surveillance State

by John W. Whitehead.   In the small town of Bluffdale, Utah, not far from bustling Salt Lake City, the federal government is quietly erecting what will be the crown jewel of its surveillance empire. Rising up out of the desert landscape, the Utah Data Center (UDC)—a $2 billion behemoth designed to house a network of computers, satellites, and phone lines that  ... MORE

Obama Regulations Cost Americans $46 Billion A Year

by Paul Bedard. Some 10,215 new federal regulations from the Obama administration are costing consumers, businesses and the economy overall $46 billion annually, more than five times the regulatory price tag of former President Bush in his first three years in office. Worse: just implementing those regulations had a one-time additional cost of $11 billion   ... MORE

A Privacy Revolution Begins With Tainting The Data

by Adam Dickter.   Is this unethical? No more so, I think, than ducking into a cab to avoid a stalker, or closing the blinds on a peeping Tom. Or luring people into a massive social network under the guise of "helping you connect and share with the people in your life" while collecting a complete dossier on you. Comedian Steve Martin once came up with a novel way to fend ... MORE

Arthur Caplan: Your Privacy For A Low Price

Your privacy is gone, and it’s never coming back.    A report that Target accidentally disclosed a teen girl’s pregnancy to her father shows the logical extreme to which retailers can take the search for more information about their customers. This is what happens when you hand the cashier at your local drug store or grocery store any of a zillion plastic reward  ... MORE

Steve Gunn: What Is Homeland Security Really Monitoring?

Government fears there is too much liberty in America.    Here's some important news I wish you didn't have to read about because it might make you less likely to freely express your opinions. And when Americans no longer feel comfortable expressing opinions, our Constitution and way of life are clearly in peril. It's recently come to light that the U.S.     ... MORE