Stewart Baker writes: If you’re looking for laws of unintended consequences, you can’t do better than privacy. Take two examples plucked from last week’s front pages: Here’s the New York Times reporting on massive fraud in the billion-dollar settlement of claims that the Agriculture Department discriminated against black, Hispanic, and female farmers: Read more on The Volokh…
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Privacy is overrated – Richard A. Posner
Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is also a senior lecturer with the University of Chicago Law School. He has an OpEd in the New York Daily News called “Privacy is Overrated.” Here are just two snippets: [Mayor Bloomberg] wants concerns with privacy to take second place to…
Missouri photo biometrics plan in limbo
David A. Lieb of Associated Press reports: With its financing in jeopardy, Missouri has slowed work on a high-tech computer program intended to catch potential fraud or criminals by conducting a biometric analysis — or facial recognition — of digital photographs taken for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. Read more on SFGATE.com. Although the main…
Report: Privacy and Missing Persons after Natural Disasters
The Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) at Fordham Law School and the Commons Lab of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars have issued a report titled “Privacy and Missing Persons after Natural Disasters,” prepared as part of a joint project. The report is available for free download at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2229610 (no registration…