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Category: American Privacy
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Frederick S. Lane | In my previous post, “The Napoleon of the Mailbags,” I talked about the enthusiasm of Christian nationalists for a re-invigoration of the 1873 Comstock Act. In the view of zealots like US District Court Judge Matthew Kaszmyrak (D. 19th Cent.), the law’s long-dormant prohibition against the mailing of “(e)very article or…
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By Frederick S. Lane | The name “Anthony Comstock” has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. That’s really something of a surprise, given that Comstock died almost 109 years ago in his Summit, NJ, home. But he left behind a legacy of legislative and cultural activism that increasingly resonates with…
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By Frederick S. Lane Having spent a fair amount of time reading the writings of America’s founding statesmen, I feel qualified to ask the following question: Is there anything that Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, or Washington would have found more ludicrous than the sight of thousands of Americans wandering around colonial Philadelphia trying to capture imaginary…
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By Frederick S. Lane As intrusive as data collection by private companies can be, the negative consequences (unwanted ads, commercial profiling, even credit redlining) pale in comparison to government power over our property, our liberty, and even our lives. As I wrote in American Privacy, we don’t have to look far back in our nation’s…
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The SCOTUS cellphone privacy ruling and the recent celebrity phone hack are two sides of the same coin, according to Frederick Lane, legal scholar and author of AMERICAN PRIVACY: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right.
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You may not want to explain the details of Anthony Weiner’s public disgrace to your kids, but if you keep mum, you may be missing a chance to teach your kids some valuable lesson.
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“You Have the Right to Remain Silent”
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Frederick S. Lane makes an immodest proposal for airline safety in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.
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Frederick S. Lane looks at the Constitutional issues posed by the group of politicians at 133 C Street, otherwise known as “The Family.”
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