…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.
Entries Tagged as 'Privacy Issues'
We Must Be Winning the War on Terror…
March 9th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues · Terror v. Civil Liberties
On the "Abort Obama" Incident
March 1st, 2009 · Comments Off
There was a bit of blogospheric buzz over whether "abort" is synonymous with "assassinate" (it's not), but that debate misses the point.
Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues
When "Reasonable Suspicion" Becomes "Any Suspicion"
February 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I'm of course not defending sniff dogs — not even close.
Tags: Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues · Property Rights
NYPD Accused of Repeated Gay Prostitution Entrapment
February 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
What's more interesting to me than the entrapment analysis is how this scandal relates back to Larry Craig.
Tags: Constitutional Issues · Gay Rights and Issues · Law Enforcement Abuses · New York City & State · Privacy Issues
"There Will Always Be Criminals"?
January 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments
A response to David Freddoso's silly defense of the War on Drugs.
Tags: Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues
Linkfest: Supreme Court Roundup
January 17th, 2009 · Comments Off
Strip searches of students; the 14-year old "terrorist" sent to Guantanamo; the "Barney Fife" exception to the exclusionary rule.
Tags: Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues · Student Rights
California Bigots Unveil Their Latest Hypocrisy
January 10th, 2009 · Comments Off
Guess who's asking "activist judges" to thwart "the will of the people"!
Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Privacy Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars · Updates
If You Need "Rights," Then You Don't Deserve Them?
December 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This Oregon drug case is not one for the ages. I wanted to highlight it, however, if for no other reason than for the sheer purity of its lesson.
Tags: Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues
"Border Search" Policy Should Not Rest with Congress
December 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
To review: Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have crafted a plenary "border exception" to the Fourth Amendment. Bootstrapping long-obsolete doctrines about shipping, tariffs and contraband, the courts deferred as the government exploited one of the greatest loopholes in the Bill of Rights: the idea that only "unreasonable" searches and seizures are proscribed, and that [...]
Tags: Fourth Amendment · Law Enforcement Abuses · Privacy Issues
Happy World AIDS Hysteria Day!
December 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today is World AIDS Day — and also the twentieth anniversary of the event.
To celebrate, let's call for the elimination of health-related privacy rights and civil liberties generally:
All U.S. measures regarding HIV testing, treatment and tracing are voluntary — a policy that has resulted in an increase in AIDS cases, many of which could have [...]
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Constitutional Issues · Gay Rights and Issues · Privacy Issues


















