The Register: No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government’s request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. At issue is whether the [...]
Official Gmail Blog – Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP:
Sync your inbox across devices instantly and automatically. Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox. Don’t fret if you don’t see “IMAP Access” [...]
ATA – Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law:
The U.S. Senate last night approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen its Public Access Policy by requiring rather than requesting participation by researchers. The bill will [...]
CNET – RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits:
Just in time to welcome many students back from fall break, the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday dispatched a new round of “prelitigation” letters to 19 U.S. universities from coast to coast, alleging that campus networks are being used to commit copyright infringement.
Washington Post – Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill:
Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program, according to [...]
Oct 182007
Balkinization – Judge Mukasey is Agnostic on Whether Waterboarding is Lawful:
Just now, in response to repeated questions, he insisted that he did not know enough to say whether waterboarding, or any other technique, is torture, cruel treatment under Common Article 3, or otherwise unlawful. It’s really remarkable how far we have fallen when a jurist [...]
Oct 182007
PBS FRONTLINE – Cheney’s Law:
For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted [...]
Michigan Law Review – An Online Symposium
on the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and Patent Law:
This symposium takes place against a backdrop of three recent Supreme Court decisions—KSR v. Teleflex, Microsoft v. AT&T, and eBay v. MercExchange—affecting patent law. It asks whether these cases, considered together, represent a recent upheaval in patent law and redefine [...]
Oct 172007
CNN – Verizon offers details on records releases:
Verizon Communications says it has provided federal, state and local law enforcement agencies tens of thousands of communication and business records relating to customers based on emergency requests without a court order or administrative subpoena.
In an October 12 letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and [...]
Oct 172007
New York Times – Questions of Justice:
Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed page asked four legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear Judge Mukasey answer.
One sample question:
1. Griffin Bell, attorney general under Jimmy Carter, once wrote of the “tension [...]
American Civil Liberties Union – Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role in Domestic Surveillance:
New documents uncovered as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit reveal that the Department of Defense secretly issued hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to obtain private and sensitive records of [...]
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