FCC Shifts Onus of Customer Phone Privacy to Service Providers -
In an apparent victory for privacy advocates but a potential nightmare for telco providers, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted new safeguards to prevent personal telephone records of consumers from unauthorized disclosure.
The regulations are intended to further protect against the likelihood of pretexting, whereby individuals or organizations obtain personal information without prior authorization. Such pretexting was used by Hewlett-Packard last year to investigate the source of board room media leaks.
Are You A Liberaltarian? - Pretty good analysis of where a true libertarian should look in 2008
In Bush’s two terms, in office spending has grown on nearly all fronts. As Lindsey points out, the size of the federal government has increased by the greatest percentage since Lyndon Johnson and his plethora of Great Society programs. And this isn’t just limited to military spending. Bush has vastly augmented federal control over education, passed a bloated new entitlements bill on prescription drugs, increased farm subsidies, run up massive budgetary deficits, and stood idly by as Congress stuffed record amounts of pork through the legislature. Not exactly a libertarian’s dream, is it?
As to whether the Democrats can steal the libertarians away from the Republicans in 2008, that remains to be seen. Of the top three Democrats running for president, only the populism of John Edwards is anathema to libertarians. Unless Edwards pulls a Kerry and unexpectedly wins in the primaries, I doubt that will present a problem.
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