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Privacy advocates are waking up, and they don't like the smell. Last week the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging that Passport collects personal information deceptively. The advocates' nightmare vision is that Microsoft will use Passport to collect piles of data on Internet users, including what sites they visit, what they buy, whom they send gifts to and where they travel...
...Antismoking activists quickly pounced, taking out ads in several major U.S. newspapers denouncing the study. But it's not Big Tobacco that's putting a price on human life. It's governments worldwide, including the U.S., and they collect on both ends: Through excise taxes that penalize smokers for the social costs they supposedly impose on society, and through those savings that come because smokers tend to die earlier (and thus cost governments less) than nonsmokers...
...analyze the traffic-stop activity of particular officers is to measure it against the work of other officers pulling comparable shifts. Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified. Walker's approach seems sound, but almost no cities collect traffic-stop data on a cop-by-cop basis...
Because Cincinnati--like many cities--doesn't yet collect racial data on police activity, it is hard to say whether the police force is as bad as some claim. But several facts about the force may help explain why many blacks feel that cops are biased--why they may believe they were racially profiled during a traffic stop even if their taillight was burned out. First, the police division is only 28% African American, while the city is 43% black. Cincinnati is the 10th most segregated city in the nation, according to the 2000 Census. That segregation is reflected...
...fighting have left many of the country's museums nearly empty. "For starving, unpaid soldiers, anything is good for sale," says George Abungu, chairman of the International Standing Committee on the Traffic in Illicit Antiquities. "Lack of order is a perfect breeding ground for people who want to collect...