Choose Privacy Week – WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 4/28/16

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Choose Privacy Week runs from May 1-7. Seems like a good time for a look at recent developments in how US Intelligence Agencies are operating when it comes to the collection of metadata on the calls and Internet activities of all of us. Congress is wondering, too.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/3/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Well, May 1-7, 2012 is Choose Privacy Week so in its honor, let’s take a look at some developments in the digital realm that could affect privacy in both the digital and physical realms.

WERU News Report 5/2/12

Issue: Alternative, independent local news
Host: Amy Browne Producers: Jim Campbell & Amy Browne
Segment 1: “Choose Privacy Week”, featuring a talk by Michael German, Senior Council for National Security, ACLU, former FBI. (FMI: www.privacyrevolution.org )

Segment 2: We listen in on part of April’s meeting of the Bangor City Council, as they consider how they are going to deal with Governor LePage’s line item veto of state funding for the General Assistance program.

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
Privacy is under siege in the digital age
Since 9/11 in the US, privacy has been more and more reduced by government actions, particularly data mining
Current initiatives in congress would erode privacy even more
Bangor City Councilors are considering which programs they may need to cut to make up for the budget shortfall caused by LePage’s line item veto
Area organizations making budget requests are questioned by councilors, including one that asked why younger people can’t join the senior center, and another who grilled the Bangor Public Library representatives about their decision to not ban “Occupy Bangor” activists last fall (seemingly implying that the library may be punished financially)

Recorded talk by Michael German, Senior Council for National Security, ACLU, former FBI and audio from April’s Bangor budget meeting (several speakers)

Call In Program: no

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/6/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

This is national Choose Privacy Week, so it might be good time to reflect on how important privacy is to each of us in the digital age. Any such reflection might start with the question: exactly what does the word “privacy” mean? That question, in turn, leads us to wonder where the concept of privacy actually comes from. Is it a legal right, or a moral right, or a biological instinct or something else entirely. Let’s wax philosophical for a few minutes and think about privacy and its place in our lives in the digital age, and what value it has – or doesn’t have – to us personally.