Jack Gillum reports: Building upon its fundraising prowess, Mitt Romney’s campaign began a secretive data-mining project this summer to trove through Americans’ personal information — including their purchasing history and church attendance — to identify new and likely wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned….. For Romney’s data-mining project, which began as early as June, the…
Category: Misc
Pixelhead – the ultimate in anonymous?
I love it! Jessica Ware of The Local reports: A German artist has created a pixellated balaclava, perfect for confusing street cameras in a nation where mistrust of public surveillance is widespread even as the appetite for Facebook is unabated. Martin Backes spoke to The Local. Backes, a digital media artist among many other things,…
Introduction: Symposium – William Rehnquist’s Fourth Amendment
Thomas K. Clancy has an article available on SSRN, Introduction: Symposium – William Rehnquist’s Fourth Amendment. Here’s the abstract: William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from September 26, 1986 to September 3, 2005. During that period, he wrote an astonishing number of majority opinions on the Fourth Amendment, totaling in all…
Privacy’s Memory Lane: From Furor to Fail in Eight Years
Stewart Baker writes: Privacy groups put much of their effort into attacking new technologies for a reason. They’re afraid that, once we see a technology in action, we won’t be scared by its hypothetical risks, while its benefits will be easier to assess. Once that happens, imposing new privacy laws gets a lot harder. To…