The Sun was an unlikely advocate for privacy in its special investigation piece early this week on the snooping Samsung telly.
Goldberg thinks of the respectful cameras as a compromise between advocates for privacy and those concerned about security.
"The people who are pushing for a nonneutral world are pushing it for monetary purposes," said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for privacy online.
Unafraid of public declarations of political intent, Gordon-Levitt was preparing to be an advocate for privacy issues in the press commitments ahead.
Advocates for privacy rights and executives in Australia had also opposed the deal, accusing Singapore of spying on its own citizens and on Australia.
Among other things, Holder said that he would create a committee, including in-house advocates for privacy and civil liberties, to review subpoenas like the one issued to Risen.
*Microsoft -- ran afoul of advocates for privacy rights when it included a personal identifier in the Windows 98 operating system that critics denounced as a name tag that could follow everyone through cyberspace.
But DoubleClick, which distributes ads to consumers on thousands of Web sites, has taken a public beating from advocates for privacy rights, who contend that it tracks people's online wanderings too intrusively.
However, Sociometric Solutions balances out the invasive nature of its technology by advocating for privacy regulations that would protect employees and by ensuring that, in companies using its badges, only employees have access to their personal data.
But while Jason Catlett, founder of the privacy consulting firm Junkbusters, says that it is unrealistic to believe that the rise of the chief privacy officer will automatically lead to better privacy, many advocates for privacy rights say that the shift is real and permanent -- and that these new executives have a big job ahead.
