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How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate this charade than the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. In 2004, three years after the Patriot Act was enacted, politicians started to worry [...]
22Dec2010 | James Bovard | 7 comments | ContinuedFederal Surveillance: The Threat to Americans’ Security
Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 the Bush administration has launched many new surveillance programs in the name of homeland security. When critics raised questions about the potential abuses of the new powers, some administration supporters insisted that Bush’s new surveillance policies were benign because there was no evidence the programs were being abused. But [...]
1Jan2004 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedOverreacting to Terrorism
In politics, said Gustave Le Bon, things are less important than their names. His dictum applies with special force to the word “terrorism,” especially today. The impression is, of course, that something called terrorism has to be, almost by definition, terrifying. A sensible analysis needs to move away from this semantic trap and examine what [...]
1Apr2001 | James L. Payne | 2 comments | ContinuedIgnoring Real Privacy Problems
James Plummer is a policy analyst with Consumer Alert, a nonpartisan market-oriented consumer group based in Washington, D.C. The folks who make up the behemoth known as the federal government have been fretting about privacy, especially Privacy in the Information Age. Proposed commissions, innumerable conferences, and government reports hype the “danger” posed by online booksellers’ [...]
1Dec2000 | James Plummer | 5 comments | Continued-
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