Today’s Denver Post reports that Denver police hope to install some 20 high-tech video cameras before next summer’s Democratic National Convention. The cameras will monitor street activity in the city’s core near the Pepsi Center and along the popular 16th Street Mall. Digital videos from the cameras will be erased after 30 days.
Some members of [...]
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Posted in Culture, George Bush, Law, Politics, Privacy, tagged checks and balances, FISA, NSA, warrantless, wiretaps on August 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday a U.S. judge declared that the National Security Administration’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping and surveillance is unconstitutional.
Quick to defend his Administration’s position, President Bush today declared, “Those who herald this decision simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live.”
Okay, Mr. Bush, I’ll bite. I’m elated over the decision. Explain to [...]
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Posted in Privacy, Technology, tagged hackers, Privacy on June 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Hackers, for a number of years, have been the driving force behind the security measures instituted on the Internet. Virtually every website that asks us to enter a password or any sensitive personal information usually has in place security measures to protect our privacy from those dastardly hackers yearning to get their hands on our [...]
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The NSA, when it feels the need, listens in on our phone conversations. This so-called wiretapping takes many forms: bugging, tapping, intercepting, snooping through phone company records, etc. The technology these days is diverse and extremely sophisticated.
It is all too easy, then, to imagine that if Google, for example, refuses a government request for information, [...]
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