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Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email taps

Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email tapsKravitz & Administration are both wrongThe Fourth Amendment states:"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported...

Tags: Regulations, warrantless phone, email tap, USA PATRIOT Act, tap, phone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

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BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?

Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?Perhaps We May Paraphrase ClarkeAny sufficiently advanced shillery is indistinguishable from parody.And vice versa.RE: Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?Absolutely not! They have had the original advantage for sufficient time already. Now the other companies deserve to have the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., exclusive iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

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ATComcast does it tooWell, at least a few years ago they did. I had received multiple letters in the mail with very harsh language from Comcast due to one of my roomates downloading from torrent sites and such.Comcast?Good luck with Comcast. I've had both for a good while and...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), Comcast Corp., RIAA, Internet Service Provider, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

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

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

Stolen laptops phone home

Stolen laptops phone homeSounds great but...I wonder, can this technology be used to track people's whereabouts without their knowledge? For example, is there or could there be some NSA or other secret group back door whereby a tracing function may be activated via the internet?This type of concern is already...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, BIOS, INTERNET, Workforce management, Notebooks, phone, windows laptop, laptop computer, computer, tracker service, administration, IP address, password

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses

The House just passed a FISA bill without immunity for telecom companies! The White House is pissed off: The White House circulated a statement after the vote calling it a "a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism" that was...

Tags: White House, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-14

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

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

Judge finds TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, rules for MPAA

Judge finds TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, rules for MPAAand courts should be aware that the public is fed up with Mpaa tactics! (nt:).RE: Judge finds TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, rules for MPAAFirst of all, @wessonjoe: The way to win in court is to be better-behaved than your adversary, not worse-behaved.Second, it seems...

Tags: Games, SECURITY, TorrentSpy, MPAA, interrogation, CIA

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11

 Craig Newmark, who of course is the craig in craigslist, comments in essence that while the Reagan administration obeyed the law to gather intelligence information on Communists, the current Administration in Washington has been attempting to persuade telephone companies to allow warrantless intercepts of possible terrorist phone calls even...

Tags: Phone, Agency, 9/11 Commission, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Verizon says it complies with warrantless requests

Verizon complied with warrantless demands for customer calling records hundreds of times since 2005, The Washington Post reports. In a letter to Democratic congressmen, Verizon also said that it had complied with FBI national security letters requesting information on a second-degree of customers, those who were not...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Letter, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-16

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

Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejected

Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejectedUpside down...Being the federal government's law enforcement arm, one would think that the Justice department would be concerned with enforcing and abiding the supreme law of the land.the ConstitutionAs it stands the Justice department is clearly an enemy of the Constitution.What would the Founders have expected...

Tags: Vertical industries, Franklin Quote, liberty, government, essential liberty, Police Blotter

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Telco lobbyists urge suppression of eavesdropping lawsuits: is this OK?

  Image is from the Saturday Evening Post of June 6, 1964. How little has changed. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have the scoop on a joint effort by Verizon, AT&T and the Bush administration to pass legislation that would blog all lawsuits against...

Tags: U.S., Lawsuit, Newsweek, Terrorist, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-20

McConnell admits telecoms helped NSA

Telecoms. The Bush administration couldn't have conducted warrantless surveillance without them. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell admitted as much in an interview this week, The Washington Post reports."[U]nder the president's program, the terrorist surveillance program, the private sector had assisted us," Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in...

Tags: Administration, Government, Telecommunications, Secret, Suit, McConnell, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-26

Police Blotter: Cops need warrant to search cell phone?

Police Blotter: Cops need warrant to search cell phone?Nice...I agree completely Harry."Warrantless search violates Fourth Amendment"Simple, concise and correct ruling.Warrantless searchMy opinon is that it needs to be decided on a case by case basis. In this case it was not warranted since they had the phones and it was...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, DEA, phone, Police Blotter, cell phone

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Bush wants immunity for telcos that assisted in illegal searches

With dozens of lawsuits against phone companies for cooperating with the Bush Adminisrations domestic spying operations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundations suit against AT&T, President Bush is now asking Congress to give immunity to the phone companies, The Washington Post reports. Lots of luck getting that...

Tags: Privacy, Justice, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-03