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Under PIRATE bill, Justice Dept would sue filesharers

Those representatives of the people, your U.S. senators, may not be able to block the nomination of an attorney general who is not sure that waterboarding is torture, but they are ready to fight against a true evil: P2P pirates. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John...

Tags: Patrick Leahy, Attorney General, Piracy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Government, Intellectual Property, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Research & Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-09

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

Photo: Leahy warns of growing e-surveillance

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy warns of growing electronic surveillance during a speech at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington.

Tags: Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Sen., Washington, photograph, conference

Image galleries 2006-05-05

Photo: Leahy warns of growing e-surveillance

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy warns of growing electronic surveillance during a speech at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington.

Tags: Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Sen., Washington, photograph, conference

Image galleries 2006-05-05

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Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)

Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)Then I guess we will seejust how secure/insecure these Google-ified email programs will be.Would people be a bit nervous if they realized that staffers might use unsecured, off-site servers (hotmail, gmail, ect) to conduct secure level business?RE: Will Obama have a laptop?...

Tags: Now Let, Obama, No., U.S. Senate, e-mail, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act

So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...

Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Big patent law reform on the way?

Two news stories this week indicate a real change to the patent law may be in the works, eliminating key legal roadblocks to open source and Internet innovation. First, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy tapped out a column in The Washington Times, alongside his Republican counterpart, Orrin Hatch. ...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-19

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

Mukasey says that war powers may allow for warrantless wiretaps

The love feast for attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey came to an abrupt halt Thursday, as the nominee suggested that the president's executive powers are pretty darn expansive, after all. Mukasey said that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his...

Tags: President, Law, Mukasey, Workforce Management, Human Resources, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Attorney general nominee says he will protect civil liberties

Even as an administration that aggressively expanded warrantless surveillance and intelligence gathering enters its final year, the nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general spoke forcefully about the need to protect civil liberties, The Washington Post reports. Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey said at his confirmation hearing...

Tags: Nominee, Civil Liberty, Attorney General, Workforce Management, Human Resources, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-17

What's your score? FBI STAR program uses to data to evaluate terrorism risk

Would you trust a computer to identify potential terrorists? The FBI is working on a computer-profiling system that would do just that and not everyone is happy about it, reports the Washington Post.The System to Assess Risk, or STAR, set to be tested next year, will function in much the...

Tags: Homeland security, Justice, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...

Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Anti-Real ID rebellion comes to the Senate

The debate rages on over citizen privacy rights versus government standards for drivers licenses, reports the Washington Post. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) stood his ground over protecting citizen privacy by stating that he would support a repeal of the RealID Act, a 2005 law that...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Privacy, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove

Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...

Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Apple behind new patent reform bill

Apple is one of several companies adding their support to the Patent Reform Act of 2007 which Macworld describes as "A bipartisan bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress, the proposed legislation calls for some fundamental changes to the way that patents are granted and the way they’re litigated...

Tags: Patent

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Justice fights Senate demand for reporting on data mining

Bipartisan legislation in the Senate would require disclosure to Congress of data-mining programs, but the Justice Department opposes it, saying disclosure is already required under the 2006 renewal of the USA Patriot Act, The Washington Post reports. The department missed the March 9 deadline to report on its data-mining...

Tags: Business intelligence, Regulations, data mining, U.S. Senate, USA PATRIOT Act

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Datamining program violated privacy laws

Datamining program violated privacy lawsBIG DEALS"enate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) has introduced bipartisan legislation to require the White House to report more fully to Congress on datamining programs."BIG DEAL! Legislation requiring the White House to report to Congress on datamining is a total waste of time and...

Tags: Business intelligence, Regulations, U.S. Congress, data mining, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, USA PATRIOT Act

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

Datamining program violated privacy laws

The Department of Homeland Security has violated privacy laws in the testing of an aggressive data-mining program, a forthcoming Government Accountability Office reports says. The Washington Post reports that the GAO found that DHS researchers used citizens real information instead of fake data in testing the ADVISE program. ADVISE...

Tags: Privacy, Government technology, Homeland security

Blog posts 2007-02-28

Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy

The patent system is not broken, just not perfect. That is the viewpoint of John Dudas, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO. Dudas knows his way around the patent and intellectual property worlds. He was appointed to...

Tags: Legal, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-02-27