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Financial calamity can be brought on by many things. Natural disaster, runaway inflation, unexpected illness, and stock market collapse are just a few of the ways you could suddenly find yourself in trouble and seriously short of funds. Unfortunately, there ...

Between being a writer for a living and having this incredibly effusive personality, when my husband and I decided to move to Puerto Rico and start life anew living off the grid, there were a few aspects about this new ...

In early April, Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a bill in Congress that would allegedly protect the privacy of Internet users from the unwanted advances of online marketers and retailers. Called the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act ...

In this time of modern convenience, which includes the availability of pretty much everything to everyone, one thing lots of folks take for granted is the safety of their information. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, ...

I was raised in the South, the home of chivalry and civility. Therefore my grandmother never uttered, what she called, a by-word. According to her, cursing was for illiterates and the un-churched. Proper gents and ladies just didn’t say such ...

by Felix Moyer Unmanned, airborne drones with cameras have been used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan against opponents of the invasions, but now the Miami-Dade Police Department has completed an agreement to acquire a drone for domestic use. If ...

Privacy is a key tenant of American society, but many either have forgotten what the idea actually means, or have willingly put it aside for the notion of the “greater good.” Many people will proclaim that they value their privacy ...

There has been a lot of debate lately about the right to video tape public servants, specifically police officers.  Everybody has a video camera in their pocket these days and within minutes an amateur video can be distributed on the ...

In another attempt to expand its reach into the private lives of American citizens, the Department of Homeland Security spent $125,000 to spy on Tea Party activists in Pennsylvania.  Using an Israeli-based research firm, DHS set out to track and ...

In the computer age, the idea of personal privacy is a thing of the past.  With modern technology that allows unprecedented spying opportunities and the rollback of our constitutional right to privacy, Big Brother truly is watching.  Nowadays, it’s a ...