That’s what we are becoming, and it’s all in the name of “terror”: The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies. The breach occurred before the FBI enacted broad new […]
It’s no secret that privacy has been under serious attack this year. I have documented numerous cases here, and now we have a new one for the files: In a breach of privacy, the Republican National Committee erroneously e-mailed a list that contained the names, races, and Social Security numbers of dozens of top Republican […]
This weekend amazed me. During all the talk shows hardly a word was mention about the resignation of Susan Ralston. Instead all focus was on the Foley scandal yet again. Ralston’s resignation is equally, if not more, important than Foleygate. Ralston was Karl Rove’s top aide. You could say she was to Karl Rove what […]
There has been so much talk over the doctored photos of Lebanon posted by Reuters that it is ridiculous. Of course the typical tin-foil hat wearers over at LGF jumped right on it and has coined it as some liberal media plot. Reuters has since posted about the pictures and what happened: Reuters withdrew all […]
Stories like this are just way to common anymore: Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday. The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said […]