Privacy Rights
Monday, November 7th, 2011

By: Emily Babay | WashingtonExaminer.com It sounds a bit like Big Brother: Police can place a GPS device on your car to follow all of your movements, for any length of time. The Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear arguments about whether investigators need to get a warrant before doing so. Legal experts [...]
Privacy Rights
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

If you live in the United States today, you need to understand that your privacy is being constantly eroded. Our world is going crazy, government paranoia is off the charts and law enforcement authorities have become absolutely obsessed with watching us, listening to us, tracking us, recording us, compiling information on all of us and getting us all to spy on one another.
Privacy Rights
Sunday, October 30th, 2011

By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Google’s work to integrate its Google+ social networking site broadly with its other services could raise red flags for users who want to closely guard their privacy. Google wants Google+ to be more than a stand-alone social network. It envisions Google+ integrating with most, maybe all, of its Web [...]
Privacy Rights
Friday, October 14th, 2011

By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC Imagine that you couldn’t drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car — one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle’s surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection. You don’t have to read George Orwell to conjure up such [...]
Privacy Rights
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

By WBALTV11 BALTIMORE — A Transportation Security Administration security officer is out on bail after he was arrested and charged with child pornography. Michael Scott Wilson, 41, has been suspended from his job following the arrest. Wilson was charged Monday with possession and distribution of child pornography after agents searched his Perry Hall home. Neighbors [...]
Privacy Rights
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

By Nick Allen, Telegraph UK Using cameras and sensors the “pre-crime” system measures and tracks changes in a person’s body movements, the pitch of their voice and the rhythm of their speech. It also monitors breathing patterns, eye movements, blink rate and alterations in body heat, which are used to assess an individual’s likelihood to [...]
Privacy Rights
Thursday, October 6th, 2011

By Will Ripley, InformationLiberation AURORA – A man says he got much more than a large pizza when he called Papa John’s for delivery – he got a visit from Aurora Police. The man was smoking medical marijuana just before the pizza arrived on Friday evening. The delivery driver smelled the marijuana and called the [...]
Privacy Rights
Friday, September 30th, 2011

By IB Times Scarlett Johansson’s nude images, leaked on the Internet as a consequence of her private mobile phone being hacked, spiked an unprecedented hike on Web searches, according to reports furnished by Google Insight. The actress, however, has a message for the public. She wants people to know that actors and celebrities have a [...]
Privacy Rights
Thursday, September 15th, 2011

From AllHeadlineNews.com Only weeks after the Supreme Court convenes its next session this month, it is scheduled to deal with a potentially landmark case to decide the privacy rights of motorists as they drive on public streets. The Justice Department argues their privacy rights are minimal, which means police should be able to track vehicles [...]
Privacy Rights
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

By Jason Ryan, ABC News Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Matt Drudge is “just wrong” for dubbing her “Big Sis” on his Drudge Report website, and defended DHS’s efforts to respect people’s civil liberties while protecting against terrorist attacks. “I don’t think he means it kindly,” Napolitano said, when asked about the nickname today [...]