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Judge: Probable cause required for location info

Judge: Probable cause required for location infoPrivacy Not an IssueSince the government wants information from a third party, not the individual, there is no right to privacy. Right to privacy has been over extended already to include public areas where there is not expectation to privacy, and should be...

Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, Right-to-privacy, privacy, Probable Cause, location info

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Court decision poses serious privacy threat

A little Fourth Amendment law: Warrants are required when law enforcement wants to violate citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy. The Supreme Court has held, for instance, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving a car, since you are putting yourself in public view and using public streets,...

Tags: Privacy, Courts

Blog posts 2007-07-18

FBI plans new Net-tapping push

FBI plans new Net-tapping pushNot FBIIt's the Administration thats pushing it, the FBI are just the tool used, so they get the blame. The neocons hide behind the civil servants, blame goes down, power goes up.Will they legalize kidnapping now to make this legal?:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060705/wl_nm/security_italy_usa_dcwhat next?You never really appreciate it until...

Tags: Federal government, Oath, FBI, affirmation, unreasonable search, probable cause, seizure

Discussion threads 2006-07-07

Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved

Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approvedHere's wha tI don't get:[i]"All that's required, he said, is that prosecutors claim the surveillance could conceivably be "relevant" to an investigation."[/i]How is that not in direct opposition to the fourth ammendement, which says: [i]"The right of the people to be secure in their...

Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act, probable cause, privacy, oath, warrant, administration, e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-02-10

NSA eavesdropping: How it might work

NSA eavesdropping: How it might workNSA process precludes probable causeThe methods most likely used by NSA to spy on internet and voice communications precludes probable cause. It is after the communications have been intercepted that they are then scanned, and only after something has been found in the second phase...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NSA, probable cause

Discussion threads 2006-02-07

Additional Resources

Don't tase me in the chest, bro

Seems like a legal memo to me...It seems to me that when a person receives an electric shock, it doesn't matter where it enters the body, chest, legs, shoulder, neck etc. All the same.Taser is starting to cover it's behind, now that a Canadian judicial enquiry has determined that in...

Tags: What-if IT, NOW IT, TASER, aspirin, chest, cop, risk

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about moneyRIAA is a dangerous criminal organizationThere is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away...

Tags: CD, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forwardI thought obama was going to kill this crap.I guess he is not. I am all for hunting down terrorists... but this "states secret" crap and other stupid laws that only stomp all over the constitution need to go.BTW, the next time...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Al-Haramain, NSA, telecom case, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Five IT security pet peeves

Guest post: Anyone who cares about a field of expertise â€" really cares about it â€" must have some annoyances about things that could, even should, be better, but aren’t for what seem like the dumbest of reasons. TechRepublic's Chad Perrin shares five of his pet peeves in the realm...

Tags: Pet, IT Security, Information Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Can we really have pre-emption without review?

Can we really have pre-emption without review?Buyer Beware has replace Do No Harm for Drug and Device Mfg. and the FDADana,You can't argue with good old fashioned common sense! Everything about preemption, from the way it was initiated without public debate in Congress to its purpose (protection of corporate profits...

Tags: Federal government, FDA, U.S. Congress, Buyer Beware

Discussion threads 2009-01-17

Words of Doom: "We have new software"

Words of Doom: "We have new software"This isn't "journalism"It's a Comment whose value is measured by interest and not content. Some people are actually paid to give their opinions these days.Ironic that there are simultaneous efforts to pay people for venting and explaining and to prevent people from being...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Depot Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryption

India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryptionwhat rights?Each Governments never ending search to control... everything!!the US requires by law that manufactures allow them to snoop...i work for a large multinational manufacture of telecom equipment and... not sure people realize this.. but by law manufactures of equipment used by US...

Tags: Handhelds, Government, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Text Messaging, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Judge: Probable cause required for location info

Yes! A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must have probable cause before ordering cellphone companies to turn over location-identifying data, The Washington Post reports. Only one problem: The decision, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan, is "very likely wrong" and faces "an uphill battle...

Tags: Cause, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-14

Apple: Perception is Reality

Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...

Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

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

Do you snoop?

Do you snoop?Human naturePersonally, if somebody left a diary at my house I would not read it, I would hide it away so that nobody else could read it, and deliver it back in the first instance.What do people expect to gain from snooping? Control, that's all. It plays to...

Tags: Monitors & displays, IT-staff, monitor

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Planes, trains, and automobiles

Planes, trains, and automobilesRE: Planes, trains, and automobilesIt's all about fear and control. Since planes can cover a greater distance AND are easier to control points of entry are limited to a plane and fewer connection points they also offer a higher profile of success. The natural fear of flying...

Tags: Government, train

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims

Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claimsGlass houses...MS knows their code contains infringed upon IP. They aren't going to open a can of worms that would require them to open source their OS under one of the GPL's.Open source has nothing to worry about.Just close you're...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent claim, Put Up, IP

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Buying from the enemy

Last week zdnet bloggers Richard Koman and Michael Krigsman independently responded to the news that the FBI has been pursuing a major criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit IT components - particularly Cisco routers. As part of his report Krigsman...

Tags: FBI, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-17