The recent airliner crash in Europe raises questions about European privacy laws. A European Union (EU) law known as “the right to be forgotten” is rooted in sentiment that on the Internet, we deserve to control how we are viewed by others. Along the road to that law’s adoption it leaned on evidence from some […]
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Pragmatism on Privacy and Public Safety
Too often privacy advocates place privacy atop a rickety altar. They fuel the media’s spin on government spying and usually ignore public safety. They shriek democracy could be at risk because privacy-violating security agencies cannot be trusted and they allege outrageous 4th amendment violations. They underplay destruction through covert terrorism. In practice, the US government […]