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The Pentagon Papers, Again Apr. 13, 2023
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the government morally steal d... Read More
Tesla Camera Scandal Is the Latest Lesson in Dangers of Letting Companies Record You Apr. 10, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Tesla employees passed around videos taken in car owners' private garages and other interesting reco... Read More
Spying In Plain Sight Mar. 09, 2023
Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to permit its agents to continue to spy on Americ... Read More
The Nightmarish Loss of Workplace Privacy Feb. 27, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Powerful new technologies continue to emerge that make it possible to conduct surveillance in all ki... Read More
War and Indifference Feb. 16, 2023
Which is more destructive to personal liberty, a government that engages in secret acts of war or a ... Read More
Freedom's Extinction Feb. 09, 2023
"Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction." — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) In D... Read More
How Local Cops Get Your Bank Records Jan. 26, 2023
This column has recently outlined the specious arguments offered by the feds when they have been cau... Read More
The FBI and Personal Liberty Jan. 19, 2023
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction ... Read More
A Government That Assaults Liberty Jan. 05, 2023
During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about th... Read More
Searching For Monsters Dec. 29, 2022
"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the... Read More
TikTok Needs to Leave These Shores Dec. 22, 2022
I've wiled away the half-hours on TikTok, time I'll never get back. I won't say there haven't been m... Read More
Holes in the Constitution Dec. 15, 2022
In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 cal... Read More
The Administrative State Can Put a Bug in Your Phone Nov. 23, 2022
In the age of cellphones and the internet, consumers often face a simple choice: convenience or priv... Read More
The FBI and Zero-Click Nov. 17, 2022
During the Trump administration, the FBI paid $5 million to an Israeli software company for a licens... Read More
An American in Moscow Sep. 29, 2022
When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionag... Read More
The Right to Be Left Alone Sep. 08, 2022
Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watch... Read More
Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids Aug. 30, 2022
Attention readers: The following column was originally published in 2019 and is being republished in... Read More
Beware of Big Bathroom Brother Aug. 16, 2022
Nine years ago, I warned readers about "eyelock biometric readers" adopted by Florida schools to tra... Read More
Board-And-Batten Fence Is a Simple Project Jul. 28, 2022
Dear James: We have a new unpleasant neighbor, so we want to build a low-cost board style of fencing... Read More
Illinois Law on Biometric Data Could Be a Template for Federal Legislation Jun. 28, 2022
Neither the federal government nor most states in the U.S. assertively address how businesses can us... Read More
