Online Privacy At Work; Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable; The Political Mind; Mexico City
Online Privacy At Work
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that employers must have a worker's permission before reading electronic messages transmitted by an outside contractor. The court said workers have a reasonable expectation of privacy with those messages, but that employers could read an employee's e-mails stored on an internal server without first gaining consent. Ted Chen discusses the case which stemmed from a lawsuit filed by three Ontario Police officers whose messages were obtained by their Department and reviewed without the officers' permission. Ted talks wtih Orrin Kerr, Professor of Law at George Washington University and takes listener calls about the ruling.
Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable
Ted Chen talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC's Inland Empire Reporter, Cassie MacDuff, columnist with The Press Enterprise, and David Kelly, staff writer for the L.A. Times, about the latest news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire.
The Political Mind
It turns out that Americans actually vote against their own interests. In his new book, "The Political Mind," George Lakoff explains that human beings are not the rational creatures we imagine ourselves to be. According to his research, conservatives understand that most brain functioning is grounded not in logical reasoning but in emotionalism. Therefore, Lakoff says, as long as liberals believe that people use an objective system of reasoning to decide on their politics, the Democrats will continue to lose elections. Ted Chen talks with Lakoff about his theory.
Mexico City
Guest host Ted Chen talks with author David Lida about his new book, "First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, The Capital of the 21st Century" that provides an insider's view of Mexico City as a thriving urban center that is playing a prominent role in the world.