No matter what you think about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks, and no matter whether you think unredacted data dumps are a great idea or a national security risk, can we all agree that our First Amendment rights are in greater jeopardy now than they have been in years? The knee-jerk inflammatory rhetoric of politicians around…
Category: Misc
2010: E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy
Cindy Cohn of EFF writes: With the 2010 holidays upon us, it’s time to update EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy, which summarizes and comments on the privacy-related policies of several e-readers. What’s new. We’ve added in the iPad and also added in the software used by many libraries and devices for e-book access,…
Pointer: The Year in Privacy Books 2010
Over on Concurring Opinions, Daniel Solove provides a round-up of books. Check them out!
His Hindsight Is 20-20
Erica Orden reports: Implanting a camera in the back of his head as part of an art project may have granted a New York University photography professor, Wafaa Bilal, a certain notoriety in the last several weeks, but it has robbed him of something else: dinner-party invitations. Concerned about the intrusion of his head-camera, which…