Sarah Hinchliff Pearson has a commentary on differing notions of privacy for celebrities and ordinary people that seems quite timely in light of the media fascination with Michael Jackson. Pearson, a Stanford Center for Internet and Society Residential Fellow, writes, in part: On one hand, we can tell ourselves that celebrities were asking for public…
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Employee privacy, health privacy, and public safety
Every so often, a case comes along that pits health privacy against public safety, such as the case involving a honeymooning Atlanta lawyer who was publicly named — and sued by fellow air passengers — for posing a risk to the public of a treatment-resistant strain of tuberculosis. The lawyer eventually sued the Centers for…
Happy 4th of July!
The Humphrey Brothers, party animals. Photo: Bulldog1/Flickr, CC.
Army wants pink undies for museum
Would you want your underwear in a museum? You may not know Pvt. Zachary Boyd’s name, but you probably know him as the soldier who was in a firefight with the Taliban while wearing his pink boxers. Pvt. Boyd arrives home today for a weekend visit with his family. After his four-day pass, he is…