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Technology - Privacy rights
Technology threatens Europeans privacy
rights
A study released yesterday by the European Commission
says that digital devices and anti-terrorism tools are
eroding privacy. The study suggests that policy maker's
work towards balancing privacy and security before emerging
devices become standards. The findings were released as
the European Union and the U.S. clash over a U.S. law
that requires airlines to provide extensive information
on passengers, including credit card information.
Source: European Commission
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Economy - Public finance
The Benefits of Campaign Spending
Critics of American politics often say that spending on
electoral campaigns harms our democracy. They charge that
the money goes for cynical, negative, and misleading advertisements
that alienate the public from politics and elections.
Political scientists have collected and analyzed data
on the connection between campaign spending and civic
life. The data bear on several questions at issue in campaign
finance debates: Does campaign spending reduce public
trust? Does it reduce levels of citizen involvement in
or attention to campaigns? Does it lower citizens' knowledge
of information relevant to their votes? Who benefits from
campaign spending?
Studies indicate that campaign spending does not diminish
trust, efficacy, and involvement, contrary to what critics
charge. Moreover, spending increases public knowledge
of the candidates, across essentially all groups in the
population. Less spending on campaigns is not likely to
increase public trust, involvement, or attention. Implicit
or explicit spending limits reduce public knowledge during
campaigns. Getting more money into campaigns should, on
the whole, be beneficial to American democracy.
Author: John J. Coleman, professor in and associate chair
of the Department of Political Science at the University
of Wisconsin, USA.
Source: Cato Institute
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World AIDS
Day
World AIDS Day is the international day of action
on HIV and AIDS which takes place every year on
1 December.
Date: 1-Dec-2004
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play than it is to explain. You play as the red
diamonds, and your goal is to take over the board
by leaping into the spaces adjacent to your opponent's
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