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LAW&TECHNOLOGY: Radio Frequency Identification Tags and Pervasive Tracking

LAW&TECHNOLOGY: Government by Stealth

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Hollywood: Licensed to Hack

A law that would legalize computer 'hacking' by copyright-holders into the computers of media consumers is working its way through congress. Amanda Kern explains what this might mean for the average computer user.

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Censorware

Keeping your computer free of offensive Internet content has always been a struggle. Deborah Pierce looks at some of the solutions, and the problems inherent in blocking software.

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News Sites Becoming More Intrusive

The current trend of news sites requires people to register before allowing them to read content. This raises serious privacy and First Amendment issues for all of us as our newspaper reading habits become closely watched.

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Do-It-Yourself--Privacy Protection Online

There aren't many laws on the books to protect your privacy. With that in mind, this article will list categories of software that help you protect your privacy online, along with some sites where you can buy software or get it for free.

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Playing Games to Save Your Rights

"Carabella, Episode 1: The Quest for Tunes" is an online game that debuts June 18 at privacyactivism.org or eff.org. Read all about it!

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Grocery Store Loyalty Cards: The Bigger Picture

In this article, I want to focus on loyalty cards as part of a broader context: the profiling increasingly being introduced in grocery stores and other retailers.

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This week's acronym: CAPPS

Airline passenger screening could become a lot more intrusive, with new techniques now in prototype form. Will it make us safer?

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The CBDTPA and the DMCA: Unpronounceable Threats To Your Rights

You've just bought a CD from your favorite band that you've been awaiting for months. Making a copy of it to listen to in your car may soon be illegal.

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Privacy Activism: an Interview with Deborah Pierce

Sara Longley interviews Law and Technology columnist Deborah Pierce about her ambition to promote consumer education for online interaction and her new company, PrivacyActivism.org.

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Cable TV and your Privacy in Seattle

Mayor Nickels has proposed an ordinance that will, if enacted, protect consumer privacy from cable operators.

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Child support, databases, and you—yes, even if you don’t have kids

National databases contain the names and personal information of everyone who's ever worked in America. Right now, it used to catch deadbeat parents. But what about the future?

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Copyright, Privacy and Your Rights

What are your rights when you copy a CD? What about when you subscribe to a news service online? Deborah Pierce digs into the legal language and comes up with plain answers.

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Who is watching you?

Cameras everywhere, national ID cards, GPS chips implanted under the skin--the latest sci-fi dystopia novel? No, just the latest newspaper stories.

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Qwest: Sharing The Contents Of Your Phone Bill To Serve You Better?

Qwest Communications wants to let third-party marketers know all the details about who you call and how long you talk with them--without your prior approval.

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Barriers to Enforcing Your Privacy Rights

This article will focus on the importance of the "Enforcement" provision of Fair Information Practices and some of the barriers to getting good enforcement. Without enforcement, the opt-in/opt-out discussion, along with everything else I've discussed in t

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Privacy Policies and Fair Information Practices

In this fourth installment, Deborah Pierce discusses the security provisions of Fair Information Practices.

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Privacy Policies and Fair Information Practices

What rights does a Web site--or any other data collector--give you with regard to the information that has been collected about you? Deborah Pierce sat on the FTC's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security; she lays it out for us.

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What are they doing with my personal information? Privacy Policies and Fair Information Practices

Deborah Pierce explains what you can do to keep your personal information from being distributed by data collecting companies. Part 2 of several.