Collecting My Thoughts

Some people say, I'm not doing anything illegal, why does Facebook privacy matter? Watch this YouTube video by Glenn Greenwald to find...

"In the last two elections, Facebook has sold its user data to Democratic and, apparently more controversially, Republican campaign aff...

“The Administration has not implemented the [Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight] Board’s recommendation to halt the NSA’s telephone recor...

Just for "fun" I decided to read through the privacy rights I was giving away in order to complete a store survey (in order to ent...

A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillan...

Google has many products and over 60 privacy policies. It is going to standardize them to create a "beautifully simple and intuitive e...

I don’t know how many of you are on Facebook, but I am, and I’m part of a “closed” political discussion group, not unlike an e-mail list or...

Apparently there are some who don't believe the government (layers and layers of departments of people) can keep a secret, so Patrick Ke...

This e-mail suggests that we all comply with the President's request that we spy on each other and turn in our on-line neighbors. All Le...

Use a land line for important presidential-type talk "President-elect Barack Obama may not find it that hard to give up his BlackBerry ...

Trapped in the Net There's an informative article in the July 9 JAMA about web searching for information about physicians (JAMA: 300:2; ...

4707 I love Google, but. . . this plan was really dumb. High tech route to terrorism and treason. "The Pentagon has put the kibosh on ...

Librarians and privacy What were librarians, the guardians of privacy when it comes to the Patriot Act and pornographers on the internet, s...

Politicizing the tragedy Within minutes of the news of the shootings at VA Tech, the terrible tragedy was being politicized on both the le...

Confidential except for. . . The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, the Privacy Act of 1974, and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 19...

421 Identity theft Libraries, churches and educational institutions that use our Social Security Numbers to track members, clients, stude...

354 Have you ever read the fine print? I saw a newsletter (free) on a topic (could be anything--travel, horses, genealogy, publishing) that ...

#83 High tech, high fat, low common sense The push from the Health Information Management folks to make everything electronic in order to in...