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EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps

The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency as a follow-up to its stymied suit against AT&T. Five individuals are lead plaintiffs in a suit seeking class action status against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T Corp., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-19

At Netroots, relations warming with Obama

The netroots are still pissed over Sen. Barack Obama's vote for the FISA capitulation compromise legislation, but relations are warming up again. At the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, bloggers were lining up to do their part for an Obama victory, the Washington Post reports. Said...

Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Netroot, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the net

Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the netforgetting the 1st Amendment?Clsoing down a whole site due to one item that may or may not be actionable seems a bit Stalinish to me. Perhaps our esteemed jurist would like to look at a little document called THE CONSTITUTION! Or perhaps he...

Tags: Wikileaks, Miranda, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Bush wants FISA controls relaxed, updated for new technology

As laid out in a May column in the Washington Post, the Bush Administration wants to update FISA -- the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- so that it covers modern technology, eWeek notes.Yes, this is the same FISA law that the Administration flaunted with the NSA warrantless spying...

Tags: Privacy, Justice, Homeland security

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Judge to decide on AT

Judge to decide on ATTwo different animals. The rule of law must NOT be swept under the rug!!It's one thing to declare environmental law violations in a remote secret base (Area 51) a state secret. It's quite another story to claim the act covers up a...

Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, INTERNET, constitution, phone, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Discussion threads 2006-06-23

Is NSA eavesdropping legal? Judge may decide

Is NSA eavesdropping legal? Judge may decideThe ACLU at it againThe Al Qaeda Compromised Legal Union is at it again. They will anything necessary to make sure Al Qaeda has the easiest time possible when it comes to planning and executing actions against the United States.Of course some the...

Tags: NSA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, phone, government

Discussion threads 2006-06-12

Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mail

Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mailWhat?..... Why cant you just Trust me?do these people really expect me/us to just Trust them?Sorry checks and balences are vital to the integrety of our republic.Al Queda doesn't have to win for American's to lose, if we aren't carefull we'll beat ourselves.- Sam.......

Tags: e-mail, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Gonzales

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Additional Resources

How to read your FBI file

As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...

Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Patriot Act preventing Google Apps adoption in schools

Patriot Act preventing Google Apps adoption in schoolsOpen Records ActAren't all U.S. public schools under the Open Records Act anyways? I.e., isn't "private communcations" for private and non-U.S. schools only at best?...The unpatriot act is only part of the shift from a Democratic Republic to a Fascist regime. I have...

Tags: Regulations, records request, USA PATRIOT Act, Google Inc., Google Apps adoption, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

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

Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email taps

Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a sailor who allegedly leaked a Navy document to a suspected terror group in London. He's currently on trial in federal court in Connecticut for disclosing national-defense information and his trial is slated for Feb. 25. His lawyers attempted to argue that the evidence should be suppressed...

Tags: Phone, USA PATRIOT Act, Regulations, E-mail, Government, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster

The battle over telecommunications immunity continued Monday with a Senate vote, 76-10, to advance for a floor vote a bill protecting the companies from lawsuits relating to cooperation with national surveillance efforts. The Times reports that most Democrats voted to move forward, as a bid by...

Tags: Bill, Federal Government, Government, Immunity, Networking, Richard Koman, Sen., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telephony, U.S. Senate

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcos

The issue of immunity for telecommunications companies who cooperate with warrantless wiretaps is at the center of a looming showdown in Congress. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 10-9 a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that doesn't include immunity, the New York Times reports. Also Thursday night,...

Tags: Immunity, U.S. Senate, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Bush threatens veto if telecoms don't get immunity

President Bush warned two House committees that he would veto any intelligence bill that failed to give full immunity to telecom companies who cooperate with intelligence agencies. The House Judiciary and Intelligence committees approved bills that would require the government to get court orders before it could conduct blanket surveillance...

Tags: Democrat, U.S. Congress, Immunity, Bush, Government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Vertical Industries, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-10

House Dems ready bill for umbrella surveillance of foreign targets

Does this sound like a Democratic plan? A secret court would be able to issue one-year "umbrella" warrants allowing the government to intercept e-mails and phone calls of foreign targets without independent approval of each target. No? That is the plan that House Democrats are preparing to pass, however, The...

Tags: Democrat, Immunity, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-09

9th Circuit looks poised to let NSA lawsuits go forward

The Ninth Circuit panel that heard arguments in a pair of lawsuits demanding more information about the NSA's domestic wiretap operations appears unwilling to put a stop to the suits, as the Justice Department and AT&T requested, News.com reports.The government argued that the suits must be dismissed because the judicial...

Tags: Lawsuit, Government, AT&T Corp., Secret, Attorney, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Bush drops NSA warrantless spying ops

The Bush administration has given up on the warantless eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency. From now on, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said, the secret FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court will oversee eavesdropping operations, The Washington Post reports. Under the new plan, the FISA court...

Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, Intelligence, FISA Court

Blog posts 2007-01-18

Dems take Congress: The impact on IT policy

Now that the Democrats have control of both houses of Congress, how will Internet policies change at the federal level? News.coms Washington correspondents take a look at the the tech fall-out of the election. On a wealth of topics--Net neutrality, digital copyright, merger approval, data retention, Internet censorship--a Capitol...

Tags: Government technology, Congress, Net neutrality, U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2006-11-09

NSA wiretapping unconstitutional

Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the NSA wiretapping program violates the Constitution and ordered it to be stopped immediately. In a 44-page decision PDF, the judge concluded: "Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear, in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution." News.com...

Tags: Constitution

Blog posts 2006-08-17

Compromise on NSA spying pretty one-sided

Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa) "compromise" bill PDF with the Bush administration over NSA domestic spying is getting roundly criticized by leading newspapers. The bill would allow the government to request that any lawsuit that attacks the legality of classified surveillance programs be transferred to the secret FISA court system. And...

Tags: FISA Court

Blog posts 2006-07-18