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Whosarat.com reveals informants' IDs - and prosecutors want it shut down

Hey, all you convicted felons out there! Want to find out who snitched on you? Check out whosarat.com, the website that exposes the identities of witnesses and informants cooperating with the government. But you better hurry, federal prosecutors are getting wind of the site and they are mad.Prosecutors are trying...

Tags: Courts, Law enforcement

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPS

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspects car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere "augmentation"...

Tags: Government technology, Courts, Law enforcement, GPS

Blog posts 2007-02-08

In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegal

In Iowa, the city of Davenport may wind up refunding traffic fines to some 14,000 drivers who were issued civil rather than criminal citations when cameras captured them speeding or running red lights, The Quad-City Times reports. District Court Judge Gary McKenric ruled that the citys policy that violations...

Tags: camera, Iowa, Law enforcement, Courts, State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-01-03

Detection bracelet may stop alcohol-related crime

In Texas several areas are experimenting with a novel way to handle alcohol-related crimes: an electronic bracelet that detects alcohol use, reports the Houston Chronicle. Sherman L. Harris knows alcohol has caused problems in his life. After struggling with the bottle for five years, he was arrested for assaulting...

Tags: bracelet, alcohol, offender, Scram

Blog posts 2006-11-28

Additional Resources

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Would you march for Internet privacy?

We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...

Tags: Internet privacy, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

Credit card number of thiefI assume that the person using a stolen Kindle must have to provide Amazon with a credit card, in order to buy content (assuming the previous owner's credit card was disabled). If so, that means that Amazon even knows who the thief is.I supposeIf the manufacturers...

Tags: Sales channel, Amazon.com Inc., subpoena

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...

Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer

Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyerBrave but silly manHe has yet to realise the golden rule in life, **NEVER** go up against lawyers.Especially, if they have just smacked you down in court.Revenge is sweete, except it will be the lawyer taking it all.. Yeah, sounds like Pirate Bay...

Tags: Piracy, SECURITY, Revenge, Pirate Bay, DDo$ attack, DDo$, attack

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?

Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?Nooooo, VOIP is a telephone callThe FCC "First report and Order" regarding CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act clearly puts VOIP within the wiretap statute, which, for the purposes of recording a call, treats VOIP like any other telephone call - with the same...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Federal government, voip call, Pure Digital, phone, Is it Legal, VoIP-calls, VoIP, IS IT

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Anti-sexting insanity out of control: False charges ruin vice principal

The war against sexting has now reached absurd, outrageous, McCarthyite dimensions. I had thought this story about a prosecutor threatening prosecution of three girls for snapping pics of themselves in bras and a towel was bad enough. But Kim Zetter's story at Wired about the ordeal of...

Tags: Phone, Child Pornography, Photograph, Image, Girl, Ting-Yi Oei, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent

Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees ventSmiling Sam does it againIt seems to me that the government is overlooking one of the critical components of this economic meltdown - the offshoring of American jobs. IBM is one of the worst offenders in this regard. This one...

Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, Financial accounting, Proskauer Rose, Madoff, IBM Corp., SEC, layoff

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?

Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?One thing I would like to knowHow many of those patents are actually [i]inventions[/i]?RE: Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?That is a bit fuzzy isn't it. Initially here's all you'll find.http://www.intellectualventures.com/inv_main.aspxEveryone plays by the same rulesHow can he be considered a troll? He is doing for...

Tags: patent, Alpha patent troll, Nathan Myhrvold, patent troll

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain.  The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...

Tags: Data Communications Bill, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Nathan McFeters, Phone, Software, Storage, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know

The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had filed, back in November, a Freedom of Information Act request for documents, memos and guidelines on tracking cellphone users. ...

Tags: Court, Cell Phone, Law Enforcement, Government, Cellular Phones, Vertical Industries, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops

Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...

Tags: NAFTA, Proposed NAFTA, supreme, agreement

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?

The re-do of Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google for alleged infringement of copyright on YouTube is moving forward as Google filed an answer to Viacom's redrafted complaint. The original suit was filed last year but Viacom re-filed the complaint last month. Based on the information in this AP...

Tags: Google Inc., DMCA, Viacom Inc., Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...

Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-10

White+House+official+details+email+hole

White+House+official+details+email+hole"that smacks of willful violation of laws"What a surprise! That has been th MO of this band of Nazis for the past 7+ years.I'm shocked that we have any Constitution left.the Wite House was fiscally responsible[i]But CIO Theresa Payton canceled the new system in 2006 because it would have “required...

Tags: Workforce management, details email hole, official details email hole, White House, administration, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-02-27