Several times in the past, friends have faced difficult decisions about important aspects of their lives.

And, several times in the past, I’ve given them the same advice: “Think it through, do what you think is best, based on what you know right now — and please don’t let money make the decision.”

In some cases, I’ve [more...]

Incredible.

Unbelievable.

Yet, not surprising in the least.

Facebook has been tracking its 750 millions users as they surf to other Web sites, even when [more...]

If you’re a regular reader of this Journal, you know that, lately, there have been a whole lot of stories that have raised red flags for privacy advocates.

One of the newest is something that people are just now learning about the “Obamacare” health-care law that the U.S. Congress passed several months ago.

It turns out that the provisions of that law will violate patient confidentiality.

And will risk the [more...]

Would it bother you if, without a court order, someone could track your exact location at all times?

And they could treat you as if you were a criminal, just because you happened to stand near a criminal at some point?

What if, without a search warrant, they could record your private conversations [more...]

Would it be allright with you if your employer tracked your location at all times when you’re at work?

What if they tracked your location whenever you’re driving a company car?

What if they did it when you’re not at work?

And when you’re [more...]

“They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes.

But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack.

Yet a decade after the TSA was created following the September 11 attacks, the author of the legislation that established the massive agency [more...]

Have you ever stayed in a hotel?

Do they still put a paper “seal” across the toilet seat that says “Sanitized for your protection”?

I remember seeing that on hotel toilet seats when I was a kid, but, even at a young age, I never believed that those toilet seats were actually sanitized.

In much the same way, I’m never going to [more...]

I was 15 1/2 years old when I took a driver’s education course in high school.

After a few weeks of classroom instruction, when it was finally time to actually get some experience behind the wheel of a real car, I rode a bus each day from my school to a nearby rival high school, where my classmates and I slowly-but-singlehandedly maneuvered Plymouth Roadrunners and stick-shift Volkswagen Beetles around a driving range that had been marked onto the football field.

The first several times that I felt [more...]