Tag: Right to privacy

  • Insufficient Press Coverage of Big Data Surveillance

    As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal identifiable information (PII). In the age of surveillance capitalism, information is a hot commodity for corporations and governments, precipitating a multi-billion-dollar industry […]

  • Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

    Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

    The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly […]

  • The Government Wants to Play God: What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

    The Government Wants to Play God: What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

    The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily […]

  • The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business

    The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business

    Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. —Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis There was a time when the census was just a head count. That is no longer the case. The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, […]

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