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I'm a fiction writer and cultural commentator, author of novels and short stories and two books of culture criticism including most recently Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. Check out my books and writing at www.smellit.c...
Subscribe to halpen's NewsVideotapes recently released showing Canadian teenager Omar Khadr interrogated at Guantanamo Bay are an international embarrassment.
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Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringeme
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A few months back I joined something called Help A Reporter. It's the brainchild of publicist/marketing entrepreneur Peter Shankman. Basically what happens is that twice a day I get a list sent to my email that consists of reporters looking...
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A new study finds that 1 out of 3 tech staff read the private emails of their colleagues and otherwise access private material not meant for them. For more on this, read the accompanying blog post.
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Project Grizzly will be screened again in Toronto in a few weeks, when the Cinemateque Ontario does a June 20 - 28 retrospective of the work of PG director Peter Lynch. An accompanying exhibit will be on in Toronto at...
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Emily Gould obviously knew that she was overstepping boundaries of privacy and proprietary when she was blogging about private matters of concern to more than just her. She was clearly doing it to advance her career and persona, and admits...
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