Perspectives
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Google Says You Have No “Reasonable Expectation” of Privacy
Dominick Rushe
August 14, 2013
Gmail users have no “reasonable expectation” that their emails are confidential, Google has said in a court filing.
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‘Security Is Not an End in Itself’
Commentary by German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
June 11, 2013
How much monitoring is too much and at what point does freedom become compromised? With its Prism spy program, the US has crossed the line.
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Is the Price of ‘Security’ Worth It?
Dan Murphy
June 7, 2013
The revelations of the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance on US telecommunications this week bring up a chicken and egg problem: Are Americans so safe from terrorist attacks because the surveillance program works, or are they sacrificing privacy so that the government can protect them from a statistically marginal and rare occurrence?
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‘Barcode everyone at birth’
From the Forum
May 22, 2012
Each week a global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable – that they believe would change the world.
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Your Cell Phone Makes You A Prisoner Of A Digital World Where Virtually Anyone Can Hack You
Michael Snyder
April 5, 2012
If you own a cell phone, you might as well kiss your privacy goodbye. Cell phone companies know more about us than most of us would ever dare to imagine. Your cell phone company is tracking everywhere that you go and it is making a record of everything that you do with your phone. Much worse, there is a good chance that your cell phone company has been selling this information to anyone that is willing to pay the price.
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100,000 Christians Die for Faith Every Year: Vatican
AFP
May 28, 2013
A top Vatican official has said around 100,000 Christians are killed every year for reasons linked to their faith and pointed to the Middle East, Africa and Asia as the biggest problem areas.