9th circus decides you have less privacy

The infamous 9th circuit court has repeatedly sided with people who demand synthetic rights that plaintiffs 'decided' were theirs.
They are famously Liberal, so you would expect them to be overly protective of the rights on individuals to privacy and immunity from government snooping.
In the case of government agencies invading your property to place GPS devices on your vehicle, the 9th Circus has decided that your driveway is not protected.
Why?
Well, the mail man, delivery people, and neighborhood kids might wander into your driveway, so law enforcement can too.
That's right!
If you can afford a gated property or live in a gated community, you are protected.
If you are poor, too bad.

Look up! It's the Google Drone!

Just when you thought Google had gone as far as it could to invade your privacy, they find one more way to shred the envelope.
They may be buying drones!

Arrests for videotaping police on the rise

I thought that the whole Rodney King fiasco was an example of why people's videos can be taken out of context or blown out of proportion (was all the mayhem and additional death a "proportional response"?)
Still, if the cops can video us without our permission, we should be able to reciprocate.
Law enforcement insists that conversations with people stopped by police are considered "private" even in public and therefore protected.
Sorry but in my book that only works if a third party does the recording without yours or the cop's permission..
Who hasn't heard of a case where a judge sided with a cop over a civilian where there wasn't clear evidence of the cop being wrong (or lying)?
More and more police are utilizing video to protect themselves from false claims and to prosecute people that otherwise may lie their way out of a fine or jail.
We "the people" should be able to show our side of it too but, as Anthony Graber found in Maryland found, you can be arrested in some states for recording people without permission.
Graber was speeding and doing wheelies on his motorcycle and was then cut off and accosted by a gun wielding plainclothes cop.
Like any self respecting narcissist, Graber had his helmet cam running so he could thrill people with his daring-do.
He posted the video on You Tube a week later and the cops hauled him off for illegal taping.
The usually odious ACLU gets it right when they defend folks like this.

Progressive Gestapo or Census Workers

File this one under "H*ly Sh*t Batman!":
Census workers apparently have the legal right to enter your apartment or rented property in order to count residents whether you allow them to or not.
Your landlord can be fined $500 for refusing to cooperate and you don't have to be present for them to enter.
Are you more worried about the fact that they hired a bunch of people with criminal records to gather census data?

Google (Wireless) Street View

We all know about Google cars and vans taking 360 degree pictures of our neighborhoods and posting them on their Street View application.
We are familiar with the privacy complaints and weird results of this picture taking, but most of us are OK with the concept as long as they don't catch us in our robes, getting the morning paper or drive onto our property and take pictures.

Well, get ready for the next level of intrusion from our liberal friends at Google.
They have also been logging MAC addresses and WLANs as they trundle down the street.
This information has not yet been released in any Google application, but they have already got it.
This information may help Government, Law Enforcement, and private individuals (and Google) to cross reference your information to identify your network presence and you.

It is the height of hypocrisy that Uber-liberals like the Google founders would end up being "Big Brother" after a lifetime of complaining about him.
Even worse is the comment eerily resembling Obama's tripe concerning proposed wall street regulations: "Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide."


Everyone has something to hide Eric.
Shall we prove that by following you 24/7/365?