Category: civil liberty
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Destroy Your Food Stock Without Due Process? (Hartke)
FDA to US: You have no right to consume the food of your choice. US: We are too stupid to learn about healthy food, even though our ancestors might have thrived on it for thousands of years. Lead us, masters…baaaaa!…baaaaa! Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese | Hartke Is Online!.
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Corporations Do Not have Personal Privacy Rights (PublicCitizen)
Corporations are not a person. They need to be treated as organizations accountable to their employees and their regions. Corporations Do Not have Personal Privacy Rights.
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Should Customs decide what’s a circumvention device? | Public Knowledge
I’ve been picked out of a crowd at customs to be searched before. I was tired and I gave a furtive glance. The agent dug right into my bathroom bag and finally gave up when he saw I was giving him the “you’re going to find nuttin’, I’m really bored” look. But travelling with mp3…
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All Ur Friendz R Belong To Us
This is a good graphic displaying how Facebook’s “public” policy is now.
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50% Female Tech Employees?
Enrolling women in technology has been an ongoing topic for quite a while. Various communities like Ubuntu Women and many other groups have are focused on women in technology. Scott Hanselman conducts a surprising interview with some women programmers in Egypt, showing an impressively equitable gender mix. Very inspiring!
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Copyright Thought
Just now–looking at Slashdot and reading the post about 20,000 lawsuits of copyright infringement against BitTorrent users–makes me think that that copyright litigation is going to be a growth segment for the next decade. Like online advertising, online marketing and online gaming…copyright litigation is backed by solvent clientelle. Back when I was first out of…
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