Kevin Cirilli reports: Liberal comic Bill Maher said Friday that Americans aren’t losing their Second Amendment rights — just “all the other ones,” and then compared the country to a strip club without strippers. “It’s not your Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s all the other ones,” Maher said on HBO’s “Real…
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A shock in the dark: Flashlight app tracks your location
Bob Sullivan reports: The element of surprise causes hard feelings when it comes to privacy violations, and mobilephone apps are ambushing consumers far too often, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers at the school’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute studied both the data gathered by the 100 most popular programs in Google’s Android app store,…
Rockefeller retirement shakes up privacy battle
Alex Byers reports: Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s announcement that he’ll retire in 2015 is the latest personnel move in a month that has thrown the legislative end of the online consumer privacy world into flux. The West Virginia Democrat, who’s been the upper chamber’s most vocal proponent of strengthening online privacy laws, is the third privacy…
Jodie Foster on privacy
In accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes last night, Jodie Foster explained and defended why she has zealously guarded her privacy for so many years, recognizing that she has bucked the trend or expectation of celebrity tell-all’s. “Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once…