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- U.S. Justice Department to be sued
- From Slashdot: tpaudio writes "The ACLU and the EFF are suing the Department of Justice over how the government might be using GPS and location data from cell phones. With over 200 million Americans carrying cell phones, this could be pretty important for setting guidelines. We have already seen...
- Tags: Phone, American Civil Liberties Union, Cell Phone, U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
- The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go forward but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals shot the case down, saying the plaintiffs had no standing unless they...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot optionThe ACLU is rightCan't be wrong all of the time. 62 days before the primary is not the time to make a change. Better to wait until the general election.Give Us The Choice For Who/What To TrustPaper Please. I want my...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, ballot option
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- White House ordered to back up e-mail
- White House ordered to back up e-mailACLU learns of third 'secret' torture memo from GonzalesThis will help some secrets come out. This article goes into a specific example.[b]http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/071107_b_Gonzales.htm[/b]Deleted emailsIf CREW really wants the deleted emails, I can send them the 1.7 million spams sent to me during 'his term' and...
- Tags: King George Bush, government, American Civil Liberties Union, e-mail, White House, U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- License-plate scanners are transforming police work
- The suspect: A man had rammed a 12-year-old girl with his car, pulled her inside and tried to sexually assault her. The girl fought back and escaped. The officer: San Jose, Calif., Officer Max Boyer, on routine patrol discovered the car parked last Monday. By Friday, Donald Bachmann, 27,...
- Tags: Car, Scanner, San Francisco Chronicle, American Civil Liberties Union, Technology, Productivity, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Secret court considers ACLU request for orders
- Secret court considers ACLU request for ordersBan ACLUACLU has done so much over the years to undermine United States society. Just like many unions that at one time were necessary but now have gone far beyond what is reasonable for civil protections.Oh Really?You know, the ACLU has a far...
- Tags: Federal government, American Civil Liberties Union, Secret Court
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Secret court considers ACLU request for orders
- The ACLU has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to release the secret orders the court issued regarding the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. Now the court has asked the Bush administration for its views about such a release, The Washington Post reports. The move is highly unusual, because the...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- If Fred Thompson runs for Prez, should NBC.com pull his Law & Order clips from Web?
- If Fred Thompson runs for Prez, should NBC.com pull his Law & Order clips from Web?Next questionIf Fred Thompson were running as a Democrat, would we even be having this conversation?For a clue to the answer, consider the following: When Democrat presidential candidates speak from the pulpit of a church,...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Web, American Civil Liberties Union, Fred Thompson, church, Law & Order, NBC
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Judge: Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional
- A federal judge in Philadelphia invalidated the Child Online Protection Act, which makes it a crime for websites to allow anyone under 17 to access sexual material, saying that the government failed to show that filters are ineffective and that the law infringes on free speech, The Washington...
- Tags: Web site development, Regulations, Web, American Civil Liberties Union, Child Online Protection Act, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Republicans propose last-minute spy bill
- Republicans propose last-minute spy billa handful of paragraphs...a couple hundred words....and the use of "lame duck" used twice. One might say it is overused in such a short article.But I like to think the writers biased opinion is getting in the way of pure journalism.How many times did the...
- Tags: Lame-Duck, American Civil Liberties Union, lame-duck, Bill Clinton
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Virginia court upholds antispam law
- Virginia court upholds antispam lawGood.NTMany times I like the ACLU, but sorry.... not this time..This dirtbag deserves every day in the slammer he gets. As far as I'm concerned spammers are pure scum and nothing more. Bravo to the appeals court.Awwww, ain't that a shame.I hope the scumbag's...
- Tags: Spam, SECURITY, anti-spam, Virginia Court, American Civil Liberties Union, spammer
- Discussion threads 2006-09-06
- NSA wiretapping unconstitutional
- NSA wiretapping unconstitutionalNSA and UnconstitutionalityIts good to know that the American judicial system is, even if ever so gradually, waking up to its traditional role as custodian and interpreter of the nation's constitution. Its about time judges got commited to the responsibility of their appiontments and abandon political sycophancy...
- Tags: SECURITY, NSA, attack, American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program
- Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy programMaybe, but the ruling stands until a highercourt rules otherwise.Given how angry the courts are over Bush refusing to use the special court set up for this I doubt they are in a listening mood.You see, telling judges and courts to go frell...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- RFID passports arrive for Americans
- RFID passports arrive for AmericansMoronsWhy do they ALWAYS have to learn the hard way? Anything that is made can be unmade. Anything digital can be hacked. It may take a day or a decade, but it will happen. One hell of an oops, don't you think?The ACLU needs to file...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, computer, government, passport, RFID
- Discussion threads 2006-08-14
- Google, ACLU respond as judge backs feds
- CNET News.com checks in with the lawyers after the Google privacCNET News.com checks in with the lawyers after the Google privacy hearingsHear from ACLU attorney Aden Fine and Google attorney Al Gidari after the federal hearings Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh reports.
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Videos 2006-03-14
- The future transparency of the past--we live in glass houses
- The future transparency of the past--we live in glass housesWhile the Left and ACLU Blew SmokeThe left and ACLU rag on about the govenment and the real threat has been in the private sector like most of us have know for 20 years. But the pure hate of the left...
- Tags: INTERNET, American Civil Liberties Union, hate, future transparency, liar
- Discussion threads 2006-01-23
- ACLU challenges Patriot Act
- ACLU challenges Patriot Actchecks n balencesthis article sums up rather well why the judicial segment of our government is crucial to maintance of checks and balences.there are two things that the average lawyers or politician have difficulty understanding (whats the delay??). these are high technology computers and how to...
- Tags: Regulations, judiciary, USA PATRIOT Act, American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2005-11-02
- Vote on .xxx pushed back a month
- Vote on .xxx pushed back a monthI call on all slavers to release their captives...... and upon all pornographers to renounce their shameless profiteering from silly pictures offered to the dim-witted. If there is a moral judge anywhere in the universe, I call upon him/her/it to look upon my nation's...
- Tags: Government, top level domain, American Civil Liberties Union, domain, ICANN
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- ACLU to challenge Utah porn-blocking law
- ACLU to challenge Utah porn-blocking lawNow there are two words you wouldn't normally see together... Utah and ACLU.How does this violate rights?[i]The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is seeking an injunction in federal district court in Salt Lake City as part of its lawsuit claiming that the Utah law...
- Tags: Government, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, American Civil Liberties Union, Joe-sixpack
- Discussion threads 2005-06-09
- Porn-friendly '.xxx' domains approved
- Porn-friendly '.xxx' domains approvedGrab your first amendmant rights while you still canNext it will be illegal for anything "deemed" as pornographic or offensive to be registered under any other domain. On the surface this sounds like a good thing. What is going to happen to art sites, your...
- Tags: xxx, domain, American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2005-06-01
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