Archives for the ‘Privacy Issues’ Category

U.S. customs agency spits on 4th amendment

If border agents decide to seize my personal laptop, they better be willing to throw a whole lot of resources at the thing. I’ve encrypted the entire hard drive. Hopefully it will make them suspicious - I’d welcome an opportunity to sue the feds over this policy.
As part of border search policy, government agents are [...]

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Wal-Mart to videotape gun buyers

As a national retailer, Wal-Mart already has major image problems.
Just Google Wal-Mart sucks to see for yourself the long list of sites dedicated to destroying America’s biggest retailer. Maybe Wal-Mart believes that cooperating with anti-gun rights Mayor Michael Bloomberg will improve its public image. That’s certainly not the case when it comes to gun owners. [...]

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Chalk one up for Souter

It’s about time Justice David Souter made offered a rational opinion.
Next question after reading this article, when do the roadblocks go away?
A passenger in a car stopped by police has a right, just as the driver does, to challenge the constitutionality of the stop, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Monday’s unanimous ruling clarified the breadth [...]

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The disarming of America

Dan Simpson shares his plan on how to disarm Americans. Make a note, gun owners. Dan Simpson, of Toledo, Ohio, has a plan on just how government should suspend the Second Amendment completely, instead of just partially, which is the condition we live under now. Also throw out the Fourth Amendment. Here is the plan:
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Just in case you’ve forgotten about the “Real ID” program

You can check on what your state is doing to comply with, or reject the national citizen control and monitoring mechanism known as Real ID.
Here is a handy map to keep you up to date on the status of your pending mandatory federal ID.
This is what my home state of Georgia had [...]

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