Our new French Ambassador doesn't speak French, but bought it. How Clintonesque. Another campaign promise Bush broke. I'm keeping a list. ;-) Two oil millionares who denigrated energy conservation by using a straw man. Said they didn't want to affect American's quality of living via conservation. Fox news analyst (Neil Cavuto) retort: "Unless you consider the price of gasoline". Or electricity in CA. ---- Privacy article. Pull up the URL for the full article. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-privacy-bra.html # # May 8, 2001 By REUTERS Filed at 3:29 p.m. ET # # Privacy Laws No Match for Modern Technology # # BOSTON (Reuters) - When Louis Brandeis wrote the U.S. Supreme # Court dissent almost 70 years ago that inspired modern privacy # laws, he already had an inkling that legislation would have # trouble keeping up with technology. # # ``The progress of science in furnishing the government with means # of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping,'' Brandeis # wrote, dissenting from a decision that upheld the police's right # to wiretap without a warrant. # # In the Internet age, as more and more personal information becomes # publicly available and technology allows it to be stored and # analyzed more easily, the laws that derive from Brandeis are # becoming more and more inadequate. # # And even Brandeis may not have foreseen that the major threat # to privacy would come from companies, not the government. # # ``Privacy in this country is more protected by our social norms # than by our laws,'' said Northeastern University law professor # Wendy Parmet. ``People become extremely distressed when they # learn how little legal protection we have.'' # # Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the U.S. Constitution # mentions no right to privacy. # # Instead, it stems from a 1890 Harvard Law Review article written # by Samuel Warren and his law partner at the time, Brandeis, who # were angry at the press for hounding their friends and family. [snip]
