Shaun Dakin has done a good job of calling attention to privacy problems with the Democrats’ OFA web site. Now Stephanie Mencimer picks up the story and points out how the Democrats’ lack of adequate privacy controls may be backfiring on them by Tea Party supporters using the database to try to convert people to…
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Harvey Levin on media and privacy
I’ve occasionally blogged about celebrities, the media, and right to privacy. I came across an interesting talk that Harvey Levin of TMZ gave to students at the University of Chicago Law School this week on media and privacy. It’s a very human talk that deals with ethics of the media, the “yuck factor,” “zones of…
Re-visiting issues of victims’ rights to privacy
I usually send up a red flag when I see the word “Balance” in any discussion of privacy rights, as privacy usually loses when it’s balanced against something else. Two items in the media this week relate to balancing the privacy rights of victims against the public’s need to know or right to know. In…
Google Appoints Privacy Director & Adds New Privacy Measures
Barry Schwartz writes: Google has announced they have increased their privacy controls within Google to better secure user privacy. Google has done this in response to them collecting data over wifi via their street view cars. Google has added three broad changes to help secure private data going forward: (1) They appointed a director of privacy, Alma Whitten…