A group of researchers who participated in the Surveillance Games Research Workshop November 20-21 in Vancouver, B.C. have drafted a joint statement on security, surveillance and mega-events signed by international experts specializing in these areas. As researchers from Canada and the wider world, who are conducting research on the global security dynamics of mega-events, we…
Police pledge on desal privacy breach
In a “Oops, our draft didn’t mean what it said” moment, Victoria Police are now backing away as rapidly as they can from a memorandum that appeared to let them turn over personal information on protesters to a non-governmental entity: Victoria Police say privacy laws prevent them from releasing private information about opponents of Victoria’s…
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…