Shaun Dakin has done a good job of calling attention to privacy problems with the Democrats’ OFA web site. Now Stephanie Mencimer picks up the story and points out how the Democrats’ lack of adequate privacy controls may be backfiring on them by Tea Party supporters using the database to try to convert people to…
Category: Misc
Canadian Forces won’t change access to staff records despite Williams case
Earlier today, I discussed the case of Colonel Russell Williams in the context of victims’ privacy, but there’s another aspect to his case that also relates to privacy. Mary Gazze reports: The Canadian Forces says it will not change the way it handles the private information of staff even after it was revealed Russell Williams…
Harvey Levin on media and privacy
I’ve occasionally blogged about celebrities, the media, and right to privacy. I came across an interesting talk that Harvey Levin of TMZ gave to students at the University of Chicago Law School this week on media and privacy. It’s a very human talk that deals with ethics of the media, the “yuck factor,” “zones of…
Re-visiting issues of victims’ rights to privacy
I usually send up a red flag when I see the word “Balance” in any discussion of privacy rights, as privacy usually loses when it’s balanced against something else. Two items in the media this week relate to balancing the privacy rights of victims against the public’s need to know or right to know. In…