Stewart Baker writes: It’s time to recognize just how stupid privacy law is getting. And what better way than by acknowledging the most dubious achievements of the year in privacy law? First I should explain why I think privacy law so often produces results that make no sense. After all, most of us think privacy…
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Edward Snowden Is Runner-Up for TIME’s Person of the Year
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes: Edward Snowden came in second place for TIME‘s Person of the Year, losing the top spot to Pope Francis, editors announced Wednesday morning. Read more on Mashable. You can find TIME’s Person of the Year results here. Frankly, I was surprised and yet not surprised at their list. I wasn’t surprised that Snowden wasn’t…
Rand Paul: I’ll Take Privacy Fight to Supreme Court
And he huffed and he puffed… Greg Richter reports: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says it is time the country re-examines the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment in light of recent revelations that the National Security Agency is mining data from millions of cellphones worldwide. He said he’s willing to “fight that all the way to the Supreme Court” if…
Hardcoding the Right to Privacy
Eric Klinker, CEO of BitTorrent, writes: …. Privacy won’t be solved in court. But it can be solved with code. The Internet platforms that you rely on do not need to store your data. If search, syncing, and social media platforms used distributed technologies, privacy would be hardcoded. Distributed protocols work the way the Internet was…