What’s new in privacy news this week? Here comes the roundup…
Wisconsin’s No Call List: Unlike the National Do Not Call list, where you need to submit your number just once to get onto the list of numbers that telemarketers can’t call, state no-call lists aren’t necessarily in effect forever. Such is the case with Wisconsin, [...]

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This morning on The Today Show, I saw a hilarious story: A new website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com, has become a repository for strange, uncomfortable and outright funny family photos. Users submit the photos (often under the guise of “anonymous”), and viewers get a chuckle. The Today Show staff even saw fit to Photoshop a fake photo of [...]

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By now, you’ve probably heard about those whole-body scanners that are being testing in some airports across the country. The scanners take a front-and-back image of travelers and penetrate through clothing to look for suspicious items, such as weapons and other contraband. The scanners are quick (15-30 seconds), they appear to be accurate, and they [...]

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Today marks yet another postage increase from the U.S. Postal Service! It’s now 44 cents for a first-class stamp to mail a standard letter. I can remember when stamps were just 19 cents each, and you still had to lick them to get them to stick… those were the gummy-tongued days. Stamps are self-adhesive now, [...]

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