privacy
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentInternet/TelecomPoliticsRegulation
Big Tech and Big Data vs Private Property
by Seton Motley January 19, 2021The advent of the Internet has created for us a New World.
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Internet/Telecom
Big Tech or ISPs: Who Collects and Monetizes Your Online Data (Much) More?
by Seton Motley June 15, 2020The coin of the Internet realm – is your digital data. Everything you do is tracked and monetized.
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GovernmentHealth CareLiberty
Don’t Gobble Up Government Surveillance Just Because of COVID-19
by Chris Talgo April 15, 2020Due to coronavirus, governments across the globe are considering and/or are doing something they certainly could not do before: implement mass surveillance programs to track COVID-19 patients.
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Government
California’s New Privacy Law is No Model for the Nation
by Bartlett Cleland January 4, 2019The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernmentHealth CareLibertyPodcastPoliticsTaxes
In The Tank (ep165) – State Policy and the Midterms, China Social Credit Scores
by Donald Kendal November 9, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are back in episode #165 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday.
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EconomicsLibertyPoliticsRegulation
Can You Understand Me Now? Privacy Policy Basics
by Bartlett Cleland June 27, 2018Despite coughing up reams of information about themselves in exchange for often minimal benefits, consumers are now suddenly concerned about their privacy.
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GovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
Government Officials Want More Data Collection. Time To Say ‘Thanks But No Thanks’
by Teresa Mull December 13, 2017Thanks, but no thanks, federal government. You can keep your programs, and we’ll keep our data to ourselves.
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Budgets/TaxesEducationFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep93) – John Locke Foundation, Economic Impact Study Flaws, and Driverless Car Privacy
by Donald Kendal June 16, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #93 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Platte Institute, and the Alaska Policy Forum.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Privacy Regulation Claims: “Believe it or not!”
by Scott Cleland June 11, 2016With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!®,”so much odd and bizarre is happening at the FCC in the “name” of “privacy” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!®” oddities.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomLiberty
FTC Should Have Priority Over Internet Privacy
by Bartlett Cleland June 9, 2016Recently, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to construct a new, additional regulatory apparatus, asserting, without any factual support, that creating untested and discriminatory rules for internet service providers (ISPs) will be the silver bullet for protecting consumers’ privacy.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Goobris: Google Expecting Less Privacy Regulation than its Competitors
by Scott Cleland May 15, 2016Why does the company that by far collects the most private information that the FCC claims it wants to protect, and that also has the worst consumer privacy protection record with the FTC, (Google), get 99% exempted from the telecom and cable privacy protections expected of telephone, broadband, cable and satellite providers?
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Hans von Spakovsky: Nonprofit Organizations and Donor Privacy
by Jesse Hathaway May 3, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with The Heritage Foundation’s senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky about the fallout from California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ (D) attempt to force Americans for Prosperity, a national nonprofit organization advocating for fiscal responsibility in government, to make the private information of contributors public information.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sophia Cope: Apple vs. The Federal Government
by Jesse Hathaway March 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Sophia Cope about the Federal District Court for the District of Central California’s recent demand that Apple, the $700 billion tech company producing consumer products like the iPhone and iPad, assist the Federal Bureau of Investigations with their investigation into the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack by devising a way to unlock the deceased terrorist’s iPhone without a password.