Privacy and accomplices of the powerful journalists

One of the things that the affair Strauss-Kahn highlighted is typically French attitude that is consumed in the name of respect for privacy: ilNew York Times calls him "The Code of Silence", a form of privacy that is carried to excess which is now under consideration and mea culpa. The Code follows a clear ritual: "A scandal threatens to destroy the reputation of a powerful figure in France.

Google and Facebook accounts, privacy breached if there are suspicions of criminal activity

NEW YORK - What do you do if someone checks your account, Google and Facebook, for an investigation was opened against you? And if you're not even notified of this "electronic searches? The dilemma hangs on Internet users in the United States, which could be - without even knowing it - the notorious National Security Letters, the letters in defense of national security requesting information on people suspected of any crime.