U.S. courts consider legality of laptop inspections
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/07/america/legal.php
This reminds me of the bag-search thing that went down in NYC a year or so ago; if they search you for bombs and find coke or pot instead, what do they do? (I think NYC finally took the stance that you had to be egregiously outside the law [...]
Facebook is collecting information about you from other sources
This post is initially inspired by the following flash presentation: http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/
I can’t vouch for its final conclusions, but the rest is verifiable. Check your Facebook “agreement” for corroboration. In short, the film quotes Facebook’s privacy policy as stating the following:
Facebook may also collect information about [...]
I wrote the following response to other readers’ responses to this article about drug-resistant staph infections:
To 241, Linyo: We live in a litigious society. If your doctor doesn’t prescribe the antibiotics and your child gets very sick, you sue the doctor. He or she is already paying near half his or her income [...]
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