Last week, in discussing the lack of transparency in the Obama administration, I referred to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and noted, “If ever the text of an agreement needed to be leaked, this is one of those times.” Coincidentally, Knowledge Ecology International now reports that they have obtained a copy of the August 25…
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Article: Dying for Privacy: Pitting Public Access Against Familial Interests In the Era of the Internet
Clay Calvert, Professor & Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, has an article in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy. Here’s how the article begins: “I just killed my two kids. . . . I drowned them. ….
PogoWasRight Now on Twitter
I’ve decided to give Twitter a try, so look for PogoWasRight on Twitter where I’ll be tweeting about privacy issues covered on PogoWasRight.org, PHIprivacy.net, and DataBreaches.net, as well as miscellaneous civil liberties issues of concern to me. If you’re not on my “following” list yet, please don’t take offense. I’m first starting to search for…
Defendant incriminates Deutsche Telekom boss in illegal search
The Deutsche Telekom spying trial took a dramatic turn on its opening day Friday when the main accused, Klaus Trzeschan, made a partial admission and incriminated the company’s then boss Kai-Uwe Ricke. Trzeschan, the former head of company security, told a court in Bonn that the gathering of phone records had been carried out “without…