Privacy is (not) for the birds!

In a world where Edward Snowden warns that children will never know privacy, I guess it makes sense to deny privacy to everything else, too. Get an early start on your future career with the NSA by purchasing the My Spy Birdhouse, which allows you to see into the homes of birds (including the ability to use a one-way mirror if you want to do so covertly!).

Next year, the makers of My Spy Birdhouse hope to allow us to monitor bird calls without a warrant.

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MySpace strikes again

Once again, somebody is surprised that the information posted on a public MySpace site is not, in fact, private.  Unlike the previous example, however, this case involves a girl’s former principal forwarding her rant about her hometown to the editor of the local paper, who published it as a letter to the editor.  This case highlights the lack of control that we have over our ideas once we make them public, although it seems like a better approach may have been to sue on the grounds that the newspaper did not have the right to reprint the author’s work.

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