Privacy spiral: Articles outline twisted fate of privacy laws
Check out the latest issue of The News Media & The Law, by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (available online for free), which focuses on how the Privacy Act has been twisted beyond recognition. For example, the privacy law, enacted in 1975, was originally intended to keep government from invading citizen privacy, yet it's been morphed into protecting government privacy!
You'll find other good articles in this issue, including discussion of FOIA under Obama with the Holder memo, and an article on HIPAA. Another article points out how legislatures are closing concealed weapons permits in response to news organizations posting data online (see column on that topic in last month's Quill).