Jeff’s guests today include ZDNet’s Robin Harris on RFID & privacy and Ed Hasbrouck (‘The Practical Nomad’) on travel restrictions and privacy rights. You can listen online.
Category: Misc
Lost in the Cloud
Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and the author of “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It,” had an op-ed in The New York Times about the dangers of cloud computing. He writes, in part: The cloud, however, comes with real dangers. Some are in plain view. If you entrust…
First Amendment, TechCrunch, and Twitter docs
There’s an interesting debate afoot about TechCrunch‘s decision to publish selected documents it received from someone who hacked into the email accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams and other Twitter employees. There’s already been some good coverage of the journalism ethics side of the debate, but I wanted to weigh in with some detail on…
Sotomayor on “right to privacy”
During Senator Orrin Hatch’s questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee discussed the “right of privacy:” She said the “right to privacy” is actually a misnomer. “I’ve not viewed what the court has been doing as creating a right that doesn’t exist in the words of the Constitution. What I understand the court…