Associated Press reports: Surveillance cameras in public places? Sure. Body scans at airports? Maybe. Snooping in personal email? Not so fast. The same Americans who are increasingly splashing their personal lives across Facebook and Twitter trace a meandering path when asked where the government should draw the line between protecting civil liberties and pursuing terrorism….
Category: Misc
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy
Stop presses. Matt Drudge is wrong about something? Can it be? Josh Gerstein writes: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is calling out web news aggregator Matt Drudge for suggesting that she’s an ogre eager to invade the privacy of Americans and in particular those who travel by air. “I think my nickname is ‘Big Sis.’ I don’t think he…
[Commentary] WikiLeaks: Shabby journalism is still journalism, isn’t it?
Back in my college days, if you had asked me whether I’d forever remember one particular art professor from my junior year, I would have laughed. But decades later, I still remember Mrs. Phillips. With her hair pulled back in a severe bun and her thousands of slides of famous paintings, her classes were the…
Flickr’s New ‘Geofence’ Settings Protect Your Geoprivacy
Scott Gilbertson writes: The popular photo sharing website Flickr has introduced a new way to geotag your photos without revealing your location to the entire web. Flickr’s new “Geofence” settings give users more granular control over their geotagged photos. Perhaps the best part of the new Geofence features are how dead simple they are to use…