The National Security Agency’s ‘warrantless wiretapping program’ is arguably one of the largest domestic surveillance operations in history. It also represents among the most serious contemporary challenges to democratic governance and civil liberties. This paper reports on the development of the IXmaps interactive mapping application designed to show internet users how their personal traffic m...

The newest approach to discouraging children's unhealthy eating habits, amidst increasing rates of childhood obesity and other diet-related diseases, seeks to ban something that is not even edible. In 2010, San Francisco enacted the Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance, which prohibits toys in kids' meals if the meals do not meet certain nutritional requirements. Notwithstanding the Ordinance's im...

Recent increase in volume of qualitative work on transnational technologies, HCI for development, virtual communities, and collaborative systems across a range of areas has resulted in focus on user communities whose very uniqueness may be of interest to HCI, but whose exposure in a research setting presents real threats to those individual’s or community’s livelihoods, work, or civil liberties...

WHILE MOST OF US PRESUME TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE EXISTENCE and role of modern private security personnel or "private" police, it is important that we ask some more fundamental questions about the legal basis of their authority. On many occasions each day, shoppers, travellers, students, tenants and workers are confronted by these "private" individuals, and requests may be made for searches ...

Pub. L. 110–53, title XX, § 2031(a), (b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 515, provided that: ‘‘(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States stated that ‘Recognizing that Arab and Muslim audiences rely on satellite television and radio, the government has begun some promising initiatives in television and radio broadcasting to the Ar...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have rekindled public debate about National Identification Schemes (NIDS) in the US, Canada, and other countries. While much of the debate has focused on the tradeoffs between security protection and the potential loss of privacy and other civil liberties, this paper examines the prior question of whether a N...