Jim Harper

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In this 2014 photo, Bitcoin logos are displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show in New York. Because of how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are mined, they have unique digital identities. And that design is something law enforcement and regulators can exploit to identify people using cryptocurrencies to hide illegal activity. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Beltway Confidential

Will terrorism have us do more of the world’s least effective policy?

Jim Harper · October 31, 2023 10:52 am

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Officers search handbags which were packed in a suitcase at a checkpoint at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Broken technical fixes to transportation security

Jim Harper · August 14, 2023 2:43 pm

President Trump announced that Neil Gorsuch is his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Beltway Confidential

Information as property: Seeing common law through the statutes

Jim Harper · July 19, 2023 2:17 pm

Beltway Confidential

We need a more machine-readable republic

Jim Harper · January 11, 2023 2:06 pm

Would privacy legislation help David or Goliath?

Would privacy legislation help David or Goliath?

Jim Harper · December 20, 2022 12:00 am

The Federal Trade Commission’s misbegotten look at ‘commercial surveillance’

The Federal Trade Commission’s misbegotten look at ‘commercial surveillance’

Jim Harper · November 30, 2022 12:00 am

Twitter should moderate communities, not content

Twitter should moderate communities, not content

Jim Harper · November 2, 2022 12:00 am

Should federal privacy legislation preempt state law?

Should federal privacy legislation preempt state law?

Jim Harper · September 6, 2022 12:00 am

Earlier this month, bills were introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to repeal REAL ID. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Congress and the states should reject the national ID law

Jim Harper · February 1, 2016 5:01 am

Surveillance cameras are catalyzing this conversation about "privacy in public," but the root of the problem is the lowly license plate. (AP Photo)Â

The end of the license plate

Jim Harper · April 18, 2015 9:00 am

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