Inflight porn: should and can the airlines stop it?
Unlike Rush Limbaugh, my big problem with pornography is when it’s pushed on someone who doesn’t want it. On an airplane it’s virtually impossible to read a pornographic magazine, watch a XXX movie, or scroll through photos on a “porn” website without imposing the pornography on other passengers.
Does The Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act adequately safeguard us?
You’ve probably heard about the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act of 2008, a proposed new law that would prevent customs agents from confiscating your laptop computer at the border. But what does the law actually say? Ned Levi takes a look at the law and makes some troubling discoveries.
Hotels upgrade their “no-stay” lists, leaving some guests out in the cold
As you’re checking out of your hotel, the front desk agent is clacking away at the keyboard. Think he’s printing your invoice or updating your address? Think again. With one stroke of a key, he may be banning you from hotels all around the world. Yep, hotel blacklists exist. But are they fair or necessary?
Should passport info be tightly held?
You don’t have to be a candidate for the highest office in America to have your privacy breached. The practice of hiring private contractors to aid the passport application crunch may be putting sensitive information about Americans at risk.