No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. |
| | The right to privacy is one of the most salient civil liberties issues today, despite the fact that the word "privacy" neither appears in the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights. The Right to Privacy, famously called the "right to be left alone" by Justice Blackmun, is built on combination of the right to "liberty", as described in the fifth and fourteenth amendments and the ninth amendment. Privacy, in turn, underlies a wide range of issues, including reproductive freedom, the "fundamental fairness" of investigations and police procedures, and online "cyber-liberties." The Right to Privacy is a very dynamic area of civil liberties law because it must change in time with new technology, such as the internet, and because it relies on the "reasonable expectation of privacy" standard, which is itself very malliable. |
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
Princeton Admissions Dean Removed for Accessing Yale Admissions Info
Stephen LeMenager, the Princeton admissions dean who was caught gathering information about student applications through Yale's web site, was removed today. LeMenager claimed to be "testing Yale's website for vulnerabilities," he used the site to access information about students applying to both Yale and Princeton. Though LeMenager clearly behaved unethically, it seems obvious that Yale's admissions office was at least as unethical in their behavior of securing admissions information with only a birthday and social security information. This issue illustrates the problem with using the social security number as the de facto private password and user id: the more it is used as a unique id, the less secret it is and the more prone to abuse, as in this case. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: National]
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"Homeland Insecurity" The Atlantic | September 2002
A top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget "foolproof" technology--we need systems designed to fail smartly.
This article generally focuses on the value of technological security measures, but the overall illustration of "security measures gone awry" is useful in the context of Homeland Security law enforcement measures and privacy.
[via Privacy Digest]
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