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Privacy

• 09.19.08
  As the tables turn
  Privacy (3)

  In her acceptance speech, Sarah Palin said this: Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights. Now it turns out that it's conservatives who want to be scrupulous about reading them their rights, and it's leftwingers who are taking the Sarah Palin position of mocking those who are concerned about legalities. I'm talking about the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account. Leftwingers are telling us the end justifies the means. They didn't find any terrorism this way, but they think they uncovered some minor wrongdoing. Look at all the excuses they ...
  
  
• 03.11.08
  Privacy illusion
  Privacy (0)

  When the government (or big business in the service of big government) comes up with a new way to intrude on our privacy, there will always be someone who tries to defend it. "Privacy doesn't exist", he might say. "It's an illusion." Or, if it's government censorship, he will say, "There is no such thing as an absolute right to free speech, therefore it's fine for the government to restrict whatever it wants." I like the way the current Robert X Cringely handled one of those in his Infoworld blog. It's in the responses to an article he ...