As many of us head into the last-minute rush and chaos of holiday preparations, I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy Holidays. Thanks to all those of you who have emailed me over the past year to thank me for this site and to tell…
Category: Misc
The Tort of Privacy’s Racist Past
Danielle Citron had a really interesting post today about how some have attempted to use privacy protections to shield them from exposure of bigotry: As New York Times v. Sullivan made clear, defamation has a bigoted past. There, Montgomery, Alabama’s police commissioner brought a defamation suit against The New York Times after it published an…
Privacy and ethics: discussing celebrities’ private lives
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…
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…