The Associated Press is reporting that some Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been put on leave after the recent fiasco where an inadequately redacted copy of their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures manual was available on the web. Simply by clicking on the redacted material clicking “cut,” one could unredact the sensitive material. Although…
Category: Misc
Tiger Woods has forfeited his right to privacy – no
Dr. Steven Reiss, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Ohio State University writes in Psychology Today: On the one hand, psychologist bloggers like me believe that Woods, and his wife and children, are entitled to work out their differences in private. I go further and question psychologists and bloggers who try to explain Woods’…
Tiger Woods has forfeited his right to privacy – yes
Sports journalist Matthew Syed of The Times (UK) explains why Woods has forfeited any right to privacy at this point: To put it simply, Woods’s right to privacy has been fatally undermined not by his earning lots of cash beyond the golf course, but by his hypocrisy. He could have had sex with a platoon…
The Real Privacy Paradox
Larry Downes comments on yesterday’s FTC roundtable as well as a recent survey in discussing the so-called “privacy paradox.” He writes, in part: As I write in Law Two of The Laws of Disruption (“Personal Information”), researchers, advocacy groups and their colleagues in the mainstream media have for years been describing what they call “the…