No secrets except for government. Some years ago, when tax simplification was being discussed, a cartoonist came up with the most likely way the IRS would achieve it: a postcard-sized 1040 form consisting of two lines: 1) How much did you make? 2) Send it in. That's comparable to where Americans are headed when it comes to keeping ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: Under NSA's Unblinking Eye
No secrets except for government. Some years ago, when tax simplification was being discussed, a cartoonist came up with the most likely way the IRS would achieve it: a postcard-sized 1040 form consisting of two lines: 1) How much did you make? 2) Send it in. That's comparable to where Americans are headed when it comes to keeping ... MORECIA Chief: We'll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher
by Spencer Ackerman. More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the
internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your
light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an
“Internet of Things” — that is, ... MOREThe Health, Security & Privacy Concerns Of Smart Meters
by Alyssa Edes. Utilities across the country are installing so-called smart meters in homes and businesses to allow them to better track and manage energy use by their customers, aiming to increase efficiency, lower costs, and reduce pollution. But the advanced meters, which use wireless and digital technologies to send frequent consumption ... MOREVIDEO: Surveillance After The Boston Attack
Do more cameras fight terrorism or violate or privacy rights?
Steve Chapman: Surveillance Cameras Are Not All That
A help in Boston, but are cameras really a good idea? Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, they went from occasionally desirable to universally vital. Mayor Rahm ... MORE
A Triumph Of Privacy Over Unwarranted Police Prying
by Ronald Bailey. My Gmail inbox has over 151,000 messages in it. I am an electronic pack rat afraid that I might delete just the email I may some day want to read or re-read. But there’s a drawback to my correspondence collection: Many government agencies believe that they can demand to peek, without my knowledge, at any of my ... MOREJonah Goldberg: Big Brother's Blind Spots
It is easiest to inconvenience the law-abiding. During a big chunk of the Bush years, there was a good deal of legitimate concern about the extent to which the government was monitoring us. And then there was some flat out crazy stuff. Naomi Wolf spoke for many when she periodically would come unglued about one imagined violation ... MOREG. Donald Allen: Drones And The American Future
Their utilization is evolving as the minutes tick. Drones are a tool of the modern age. They have benefits. They have faults. They have become the equivalents of the secret agents of the past whose role was to observe and thwart as needed. They are a modern technology with which no governmental leader has a real, life-long experience. ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Staring In Drone Dynasty
You are a reality star. You might think no one sees you in your fenced-in backyard grilling hamburgers in your boxer shorts. But government drones equipped with HD cameras are filming a new reality show starring you: “Drone Dynasty.” In popular reality shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” we essentially ... MOREObama Has A Database On Everything About Everybody
Watch Maxine Waters discuss it on video. Here’s Maxine Waters. This was last Sunday on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin. Maxine Waters, Democrat from California. Her district is basically the Watts area of Los Angeles, and Roland Martin said, “The reality is like anything else, you’d better get what you can while Obama’s there ... MOREBob Barr: Uncle Sam, Privacy Hypocrite
The "do not track" option please. If one were to read the Federal Trade Commission’s recent staff report discussing ways to protect consumer privacy in mobile apps, one might conclude the federal government genuinely was concerned about consumer privacy. Among other recommendations, the report supports safeguards such as ... MOREDavid Bier: The Coming National Identification System
Big Brother is watching you. “Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now ... MOREDustin Hurst: Bipartisan Opposition To Domestic Drones
Parties join forces to curtail surveillance society. Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders—in car chases, to monitor wildfires, or for simple surveillance—is uniting political parties and people more often at odds. Their concern: the widespread use of drones ... MOREFighting The Total Surveillance State In Our Schools
by John Whitehead. “I would say there is a school-to-prison pipeline, but there is also a prison-to-school pipeline. [The use of security hardware (cameras, metal detectors and retina detectors) and the practice of treating students as suspects are strategies of the criminal justice system, and they have been flowing into the schools.] ... MOREFlorida Senate Panel Votes To Ban Spying With Drones
One state's stand for citizen privacy. A Florida Senate panel says police should be banned from using drones to spy on citizens. A bill (SB 92) that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from gathering evidence or other information flew through the Criminal Justice Committee with a unanimous vote Tuesday. It also would ban ... MOREAmericans Are The Most Spied On People In History
Big Brother is in the building. TechDirt notes: In a radio interview,
Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best
at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation
that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans. ... MOREBig Brother? License Plate Reader Device Sparks Debate
by Lee Davidson. Like the fictional "Big Brother" who was always watching, new machines now give police a growing ability to record license plate numbers of vehicles almost anywhere — at crime scenes, on freeways or in parking lots. So a legislative debate has begun about controlling how such data may be used, and how long it may be. ... MORE
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