Despite demands by human rights advocates that photos documenting abuse of military detainees be made public, the Senate last month passed legislation to block their release. The legislation is now before the House. President Obama supports these efforts. This is all goodnews. Classifying the photos would help protect those detainees’ basic rights to dignity and…
Category: Misc
On the Jeff Farias Show today
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.
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…