Reasons to be Concerned About Privacy

Are your Internet activities private and secure, or are they available for public knowledge? An interesting site, Visible Browsing, will show you what activities are publicly displayed. Just click a button and you’ll see where you’ve been on the Internet.

The Visible Browsing site is gathering petition signatures with the request to patch the privacy vulnerabilities of web different web browsers. This petition will be sent to the four major development companies – Mozilla Corp., Apple inc., Microsoft Corp. and Opera Software ASA.

Warrantless Searches by the FCC

Wired wrote a disturbing article about the fact that using a 1930s law, the FCC can enter your home without a warrant to see that anything running in your house that uses RF (radio frequency) energy is not creating a disturbance.  According to Wired, devices that use RF energy include “a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house.”

If you don’t let the FCC inspectors in, you can face hefty fines.

Constitutional law professors and privacy right advocates question the legality of this policy.

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