News Mix: A high school coach has been reprimanded for licking athletes.
This is the world's most expensive mansion currently on the market.
Krugman's column today is on the housing market.
Hastert reps rebutt the Vanity Fair article I posted on last week.
Europe vs. the US: I think I should make this a regular feature. Since I am the product of both cultures, I think this NYT article on different views of privacy is particularly interesting: "More fundamentally, these two systems for dealing with data arise from a cultural divide over privacy itself. In broad terms, the United States looks at privacy largely as a consumer and an economic issue; in the rest of the developed world, it is regarded as a fundamental right." I thought there there is definitely a certain truth in this, especially given how much power we have given government to collect data since 9/11. But then the article goes on: "Not surprising, the United States has "many more laws restricting the government collection and use of information than laws restricting corporate use of collection and information," said Bruce Schneier, an expert on computer security issues. "Europe is the reverse," he added." Though I was surprised by this at first, I then remembered my transnational threats class last year, where I felt like I was the only one who was equally if not more concerned with companies having my personal information than the government collecting information. I think that it ties back to the European expectation that government provides certain good, and therefore is accepted but still scrutinized. In the US, there is that really difficult balance between expecting the government to do things (such as protect us), but not wanting to have our individual rights limited. So government is viewed in a more negative light, but at the same time we don't scrutinize it very closely. Those are my initial thoughts, and I was wondering what you think, and how much you think this is Europeans just being overly bureaucratic or punctilious.
This is the world's most expensive mansion currently on the market.
Krugman's column today is on the housing market.
Hastert reps rebutt the Vanity Fair article I posted on last week.
Europe vs. the US: I think I should make this a regular feature. Since I am the product of both cultures, I think this NYT article on different views of privacy is particularly interesting: "More fundamentally, these two systems for dealing with data arise from a cultural divide over privacy itself. In broad terms, the United States looks at privacy largely as a consumer and an economic issue; in the rest of the developed world, it is regarded as a fundamental right." I thought there there is definitely a certain truth in this, especially given how much power we have given government to collect data since 9/11. But then the article goes on: "Not surprising, the United States has "many more laws restricting the government collection and use of information than laws restricting corporate use of collection and information," said Bruce Schneier, an expert on computer security issues. "Europe is the reverse," he added." Though I was surprised by this at first, I then remembered my transnational threats class last year, where I felt like I was the only one who was equally if not more concerned with companies having my personal information than the government collecting information. I think that it ties back to the European expectation that government provides certain good, and therefore is accepted but still scrutinized. In the US, there is that really difficult balance between expecting the government to do things (such as protect us), but not wanting to have our individual rights limited. So government is viewed in a more negative light, but at the same time we don't scrutinize it very closely. Those are my initial thoughts, and I was wondering what you think, and how much you think this is Europeans just being overly bureaucratic or punctilious.
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