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- Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward
- Bad news for the EFF's and ACLU's attempts to sue telephone companies for cooperating with the NSA. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the groups’ lawsuits because Congress had passed the FISA amendment giving telecoms immunity. The groups plan to appeal on constitutional grounds. While...
- Tags: Court, Statute, Obama Administration, House, Government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical Industries, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Judge wants to see legal memos in NSA wiretapping case
- A federal judge has ordered the Justice Dept. to turn over documents relating to the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. ACLU and EFF had sought the legal opinions under an FOIA request, while Justice merely submitted summaries, claiming attorney-client privilege. Judge Henry Kennedy said the summaries the department provided were inadequate...
- Tags: Judge, Memo, Summary, Richard Koman, Document, U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- 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
- News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., HD-DVD, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Toshiba Corp., Wireless, Hd Dvd, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Viruses And Worms, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
- The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go forward but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals shot the case down, saying the plaintiffs had no standing unless they...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- 23andme to launch Monday
- 23andme to launch MondayFreakyI'm not sure how many people will want to know all this information about themselves much less want to put down $999- John MusbachGovernment Gold MineHow nice would it be to have access to this type of data...talk about understanding if someone had a higher tendency to...
- Tags: Biotechnology, DNA
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping
- Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretappingHardly a Constitutional Crisis.The President will invoke executive privilege. The Supreme court will rule in his favor. The Democrats will get the sound bite they are after and the world will go on.Maybe the Senate should issue "National Security Letters" instead, ne?Just...
- Tags: Workforce management, NSA, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, administration
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Second Life mogul regrets DMCA complaint
- Second Life mogul regrets DMCA complaintBut he made it a copyright issueThe law in question is a COPYRIGHT Act. If the problem has nothing to do with copyright, why was it filed under copyright rules?It doesn't matter what this guy thinks it was actually about. The copyright on a video...
- Tags: Digital media, DMCA, DMCA complaint, Second Life, Second Life Mogul
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- Wiretapping, Google subpoena earn Muzzle Awards
- Wiretapping, Google subpoena earn Muzzle AwardsKudos!Congratulations on some excellent choices. The warrentless wiretapping concerns me most, followed closely by the government's demand that search engines turn over information that could lead to violation of individuals' privacy rights.Stupid attempts to restrict people's right to free speech without good reason are...
- Tags: Government, SECURITY, Muzzle Award, Google Subpoena, privacy, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- Court date set for Google lawsuit
- Court date set for Google lawsuitwhat about....What about MSN and Yahoo they ave up their records without any question. Will google stand a chance in court after that?http://otherthingsnow.blogspot.com/Amazed they didn't back offThe inJustice Dept. has no legs to stand on! Boy do I hate the right-wing agenda . . ....
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Government Official, Google Inc., Web site, IP address
- Discussion threads 2006-01-27
- DOJ porn over-stepping: Stop it now
- [The following lede paragraph is altered to reflect the fact that several justifications for the subpoenaed information discussed in the story have been floated. Nonetheless, the basic principles involved are identical.] Claiming to be conduction research about how kids find pornography on...
- Tags: Google Inc., It&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2006-01-19
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