Are there nude pictures of you at the doctor on the net?

"A traffic stop led officers to discover that a Willard man allegedly has been compiling nude photos of patients from the medical facility where he worked."Oh sweet mother of all that is good and holy, can you imagine! A medical facility is the one place I feel safe taking my...

3 Reasons U.S. Marines Need Social Networking

"Earlier this week, the United States Marine Corps announced an immediate ban on social networking services -- including Facebook, MySpace and the like -- for members of the Marines. Using those sites, as well as Twitter, poses a security threat, according to...

Privacy law, free press or self-regulation?

""As a paper we do believe in effective self-regulation and we don't want a privacy law. When it comes to effective self- regulation, it seems to me it can only work if newspaper groups are truthful and open with the regulators.""What many don't understand is that the UK...

UK 'must log' phone and web use

"All internet and phone traffic should be recorded to help the fight against terrorism, according to one of the UK's former spy chiefs. Civil rights campaigners have criticised ministers' plans to log details of such contact as "Orwellian". "This debate continues. I believe...

Abandon ID cards

"The Identity Cards Act was introduced during the period of global insecurity following 9/11 – and during what some would say was the paranoia of the era of President Bush and his vice-president Dick Cheney. The rule of law in the US was under constant threat, the Patriot...

Websites 'keeping deleted photos'

Another timely reminder that we should all keep in mind: if you put something on the web, particularly on a social network site, be prepared for it to be found by anyone at any time. Privacy settings be damned. "User photographs can still be found on many social networking...