Over on Chronicles of Dissent, I’ve been blogging about privacy issues and the ethics of psychologists discussing celebrities’ personal lives. Part 1 of the discussion uses the Tiger Woods scandal and Brittany Murphy death to illustrate some ethical concerns and it includes statements from the ethics codes of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American…
Category: Misc
DECAF: “Game Over”
Earlier this week, this site linked to a news report on DECAF, a counter-COFEE application. Now it appears that DECAF was a hoax (but see Comment 1, below, that it was not a hoax). The decafeme.org site now reads: We want to thank every media outlet, financial supporter, security expert, and forensic investigator that showed…
Can copyrighting your name keep it out of the news?
Josh Verges reports: A former lawmaker convicted of raping his foster daughters says news media are no longer allowed to use his name without his permission. Ted Klaudt sent notices to the Argus Leader and several other news outlets claiming he has copyrighted his own name. Reporters were told to ask his permission 20 days…
Now THIS is scary
Over on AVG Blogs, Roger Thompson blogged about what happened when he was traveling and his credit card was declined because he hadn’t alerted his bank he’d be traveling. In order to get his card un-suspended, he had to answer some security questions for the bank’s Fraud department. And that’s when it got scary. Roger…