This is somewhat old news and it is a nationwide issue and not just confined to Colorado, but it may be news to some. David Migoya reports: Colorado colleges, universities and their alumni associations pocket millions of dollars a year via lucrative deals with banks and credit-card companies that peddle services to students, faculty and…
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Privacy has a price tag of $5,000
Bill Morem has an opinion piece about the detailed U.S. census survey that gives the issue a “human face:” Tom Bolton is in a pickle, a dilemma that may leave his wages garnished by the government to the tune of $5,000. He’s staring down the barrel of such a fine because the Atascadero resident is…
Privacy is about control, not anonymity
Dave Fleet writes: Seth Godin says you don’t really care about privacy: “If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. And you wouldn’t use the phone, because somewhere, there’s a computer scanning what you say. What most of us care about is being…
Citizen or subject: The politics of personal identity
Philip Virgo writes: The debate over ID Cards has not gone away. It will return next year, with plans for security during the Olympics (as an “extension” of the NATO agenda for identifying Goivenrment employers and contractors, including security staff and volunteers), for residents’ cards (to cut the cost of delivering public services) and for EU initatives (supposedly…