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What if Government Steals Liberty and Fails to Deliver Safety? Nov. 09, 2017
What if the government doesn't really deliver for us? What if its failures to protect our lives, lib... Read More
What if Some Spies Are Bad Guys? Aug. 03, 2017
What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and... Read More
Privacy Hits the Dust: Data-Collecting Vacuum Cleaners Aug. 03, 2017
Privacy advocates cried in protest after a report that the maker of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cle... Read More
Voter Integrity or Intrusion? Jul. 07, 2017
President Donald Trump's obsession with proving he won the election has gone from the slightly ridic... Read More
Corporate Anthropology -- Helping Companies Move Past Fear: An Interview With Andi Simon Jun. 27, 2017
In business and organizational settings, cultural anthropologists observe what people are doing, obs... Read More
The Fear-Based Campaign to Control the Net May. 04, 2017
Public fear is an ally of big government. When fear sets in among the populace — often with en... Read More
Did Obama Spy on Trump? Mar. 16, 2017
The question of whether former President Barack Obama actually spied on President Donald Trump durin... Read More
Congress Created a Monster Mar. 09, 2017
Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have been arguing since the late 19... Read More
Congress Can't Count on the Other Branches to Protect Digital Privacy Rights Feb. 02, 2017
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently shot down the latest effort by the Justice Department... Read More
Did the Russians Hack Hillary? Dec. 15, 2016
Earlier this week, leaders of the Democratic National Committee and former officials of Hillary Clin... Read More
What You Do Know Can Also Hurt You Oct. 13, 2016
We live in the information age, which is called that for the same reason the ice age got its name: a... Read More
Digital Privacy Shouldn't Depend on a Law Written in the Time of 'Stranger Things' Sep. 08, 2016
One of the most powerful arguments for limiting the size and scope of government is the inability of... Read More
Free Condoms -- What Could Go Wrong? Jun. 24, 2016
Remember when the left passionately insisted that public schools distribute free condoms to students... Read More
The Uncompetitive Effects of Tax Harmonization May. 26, 2016
During a visit to the World Bank this week, I got a sobering lesson about the degree to which the pe... Read More
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Apr. 28, 2016
Would all of our lives be safer if the government could break down all the doors it wishes, listen t... Read More
Online Data and 2016 Trends Mar. 30, 2016
DEAR READERS: Did you know? Yes, today's column is one of those, a "did you know" collection of fact... Read More
Terrorists and Their Privacy Mar. 24, 2016
One inevitable sequel to a terrorist attack is seeing the ugly mugs of creeps-turned-monsters thrust... Read More
Ted Cruz's Festival of Fraud Dec. 13, 2015
You have to feel sorry for Ted Cruz. Donald Trump has hogged so much airtime with his cynical demago... Read More
The Spies Who Ruin Us Dec. 03, 2015
In an effort to draw attention away from the intelligence failures that permitted the attacks of 9/1... Read More
Paris and Freedom Nov. 19, 2015
The tragedy in Paris last Friday has regrettably been employed as a catalyst for renewed calls by go... Read More
