Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category

Traffic Cameras: Invasion of Privacy rights? You decide

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Is the expanding use of traffic camera installations across the U.S. an invasion of privacy? This is the claim of a growing number of protesters who claim exactly that, while others including local governments and even the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) disagree. Day by day this becomes a more contested issue affecting Americans [...]

The Government has your baby’s DNA. Constitutional? YOU decide.

Monday, March 15th, 2010

In the February 4th 2010 article, The Government has your baby’s DNA, CNN’s Senior Medical Correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, relates the story of how a Minnesota couple came to discover that their baby daughter, Isabel Brown, carries a gene that puts her at risk of cystic fibrosis: The government told her. “It’s simple, the [Brown’s] pediatrician [...]