The New York Times, October 4, 2010 by Tara Siegel Bernard
http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/how-to-stop-rogue-automatic-payments/

James B. Rule … recently explored the issue in this article after his bank branch told him it could not cancel a regularly scheduled deduction from his checking account. Though his issue was ultimately resolved, he said he couldn’t help wondering: What would happen if the company refused to stop pulling money from his account?

Counter Punch, September 17, 2010 by James Rule
http://www.counterpunch.org/rule09172010.html

Disagreements inevitably occur—with cell phone companies, internet service providers, even the gym you’ve signed up with for a monthly fee. As every consumer will have noticed, many service providers are enormously easy to communicate with when one wants to open an account—and virtually impossible to reach, when something goes wrong…. There has to be an easy, cost-free way for customers to pull the plug on such arrangements, when their bank accounts are hemorrhaging, and no one at the other end is listening.

The Washington Post, Short Stack Blog, February 2, 2010 by James B. Rule
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2010/02/worse_than_identity_theft_lega.html

Nobody really wants to live in a world totally stripped of private domains and experiences. Still, entrepreneurial zeal in the merchandizing of privacy-eroding activities only seems to grow with time.

The Sacramento Bee, July 14, 2009 by James B. Rule
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/2023379.html

Creating an authoritative, fully centralized trove of all medical data on every American would focus and intensify demand for routine and acknowledged access by a range of government and private-sector interests. The ultimate result could be to render anyone’s medical history about as private as his or her credit or marital history—that is, not very private at all.