Scalia is a Blathering Hypocrite; In Other News, Water is Wet...
Those who follow our legal system will know that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn't think much about the right to privacy.
So apparently there's a professor at Fordham Law School who teaches a course in Information Privacy Law. Each year he assigns his class a project: using only free, publically available tools, they are to find out everything they can about him (the professor) and compile a fact sheet. This year, however, in light of recent public comments made by Scalia that questioned the need for more protection about private information, the professor assigned the same project but made Scalia the subject of the class's search.
The result? His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren.
Needless to say, Scalia freaked out. Privacy apparently isn't an important right for us peons, but it certainly is for him.
Read all about it here.
So apparently there's a professor at Fordham Law School who teaches a course in Information Privacy Law. Each year he assigns his class a project: using only free, publically available tools, they are to find out everything they can about him (the professor) and compile a fact sheet. This year, however, in light of recent public comments made by Scalia that questioned the need for more protection about private information, the professor assigned the same project but made Scalia the subject of the class's search.
The result? His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren.
Needless to say, Scalia freaked out. Privacy apparently isn't an important right for us peons, but it certainly is for him.
Read all about it here.