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Posts tagged "paranoia"

Rep. Michele Bachmann Begs Supporters To Defend Her Against… Bill Clinton?

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who's known both for making puzzling but impassioned speeches and for having a difficult relationship with the truth, thinks former president Bill Clinton is out to get her.

Cookie Madness!

I just don’t understand Julia Angwin’s scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don’t understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business. It is the Reefer Madness of the digital age: Oh my God, Mabel,...

Privacy wingnuts

I’ve been looking for a classic example of so-called, self-appointed “privacy advocates” gathered by the press going off the deep-end (if you have any, please send them to me). And then this dropped in my lap: a reputed outcry by these putative privacy advocates against Wal-Mart putting RFID tags on pants. What could possibly violate...