Documents tagged with privacy issues

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Dr. W.A. Kritsonis, School Law, Privacy Issues
  • William Allan Kritsonis published this 11 / 17 / 2009
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GeoMe LBS Conference Presentation, May 2009, London

Presentation on LBS Mobile Social Networking and Privacy Issues
  • ricferraro published this 06 / 03 / 2009
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Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification: Franz Kafka's Solution to Illegal Immigration,

In last summer's debate over immigration reform, Congress treated a national electronic employment eligibility verification (EEV) system as a matter of near consensus. Intended to strengthen in...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining, Cato Policy Analysis

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, spurred extraordinary efforts intended to protect America from the newly highlighted scourge of international terrorism. Among the efforts was the c...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Understanding Privacy -- and the Real Threats to It Cato Policy Analysis No. 520

Executive Summary Properly defined, privacy is the subjective condition people experience when they have power to control information about themselves. Because privacy is subjective, government re...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Threats to Financial Privacy and Tax Competition, Cato Policy Analysis No. 491

Executive Summary Global economic growth and personal freedom are under attack by governments and international organizations seeking to squelch financial privacy and tax competition. P...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Human Bar Code: Monitoring Biometric Technologies in a Free Society, Cato Policy

Executive Summary Biometric technologies such as voice prints, retina and iris scanners, face-recognition cameras, digitized fingerprints, and even implantable chips containing personal...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Internet Privacy and Self-Regulation: Lessons from the Porn Wars, Cato Briefing

Executive Summary The availability and adequacy of technical remedies ought to play a crucial role in evaluating the propriety of state action with regard to both the inhibition of Internet porn...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Why Canning "Spam" Is a Bad Idea, Cato Policy Analysis No. 408

Executive Summary Everyone hates getting "spam." But does every unsolicited commercial e-mail deserve that derogatory label? Unsolicited e-mail can be annoying, but addressing the issue...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet, Cato Briefing Paper No. 54

Executive Summary Proposals to limit anonymous communications on the Internet would violate free speech rights long recognized by the Supreme Court. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech played a vi...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Strong Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change, Cato Briefing Paper No. 51

Executive Summary Encryption technology allows people using electronic networks to ensure that the messages they send remain private--secure from hackers, industrial espionage, government wireta...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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The U.S. Postal Service War on Private Mailboxes and Privacy Rights, Cato Briefi

Executive Summary On March 25, 1999, neatly concealed in an obscure and seemingly minor "Procedure Revision," the U.S. Postal Service announced its intent to execute Postal Bulletin 21994. In an...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed K

Executive Summary Encryption technology encodes computer files so that only someone with special knowledge, such as a unique secret "key," can read them. The widespread use of strong encryption ...
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The Myth of Superiority of American Encryption Products, Cato Briefing Paper No.

Executive Summary Encryption software and hardware use sophisticated mathematical algorithms to encipher a message so that only the intended recipient may read it. Fearing that criminals and ter...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Privacy as Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the

Executive Summary Some privacy advocates urge the adoption of a new legal regime for the transfer of information about consumers among private-sector databases. This "mandatory opt-in" regime wo...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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