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Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap
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| In a huge ruling, a court has said that
| the US government violated wiretapping
| laws in eavesdropping on phone calls
| without a warrant.
|
| If you haven't been following the fight
| over the legality of warrantless
| wiretapping, this case, involving lawyers
| working with the Al-Haramain Islamic
| Foundation, is extremely important. When
| it was revealed that the Bush
| administration was wiretapping phonecalls
| without a warrant, lawsuits were filed --
| but the "problem" was that the parties
| (such as the ACLU) that filed the lawsuits
| didn't have "standing" because they had no
| evidence that they, personally, were
| impacted by the warrantless wiretapping.
| This created a ridiculous Catch-22
| situation. As long as the government hid
| its illegal activities and never said who
| it spied on, it could spy on anyone
| illegally. No one could bring a lawsuit,
| since there was no proof that they had
| been impacted by the illegal spying.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100331/1228088813.shtml
Sham Email Subpoena Violates Whistleblower's Constitutional Rights
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| The whistleblower, Charles Rehberg,
| uncovered systematic mismanagement of
| funds at a Georgia public hospital. He
| alerted local politicians and others to
| the issue through a series of faxes. A
| local prosecutor in Dougherty County, Ken
| Hodges, conspired with the hospital and
| used a sham grand jury subpoena to obtain
| Mr. Rehberg's personal email
| communications. The prosecutor then
| provided that information to private
| investigators for the hospital and
| indicted Mr. Rehberg for a burglary and
| assault that never actually occurred. All
| the criminal charges against Mr. Rehberg
| were eventually dismissed. Hodges is
| currently running for Attorney General of
| Georgia in the Democratic primary.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/03/31
Big Brother on Your Trail
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| These developments explain why a coalition
| of organizations and companiesâincluding
| Google, AT&T, the Competitive Enterprise
| Institute, and the American Civil
| Liberties Unionâhave joined in asking
| Congress to drag our privacy laws into the
| 21st century. They think search warrants
| should be required before law enforcement
| can demand this sort of electronic
| communications information.
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http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/01/big-brother-on-your-trail
Israelâs Supreme Court rules that no legal procedure is available to reveal anonymous commenters
http://2jk.org/english/?p=197
Web site posters' anonymity an invitation to mischief: Connie Schultz
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| I look forward to the day when news
| organizations start to ban anonymous
| comments on their Web sites.
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http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf/2010/03/web_site_posters_anonymity_an.html
Netzpolitik-Interview: Background on the Censilia-plans
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| Joe McNamee, the European Policy Affairs
| Coordinator for European Digital Rights
| (EDRi), recently discussed the current EU
| Commissionâs plans to introduce internet
| blocking measures with the British
| webportal Index on Censorship: Out of
| sight, out of mind. On this theme, I asked
| him a few questions to further illuminate
| this topic.
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Netzpolitik-Interview: Background on the Censilia-plans
Open letter to Commissioner MalmstrÃm
http://www.lymec.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=765
Censorship in Scotland
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| Something very disturbing is happening in
| Scotland. At one time it was a beacon for
| transparent and democratic government.
| Kevin Dunion, the Scottish Information
| Commissioner, made bold rulings on the
| peopleâs right to know including a
| decision that all Members of the Scottish
| Parliament would have to disclose their
| expenses. It was this decision that I used
| as a legal precedent in my own case
| against Westminster MPs.
|
| Now it seems some Scottish politicians are
| regressing. The SNP Government is going to
| court to try and strip the Scottish
| Information Commissioner of his power.
| Ministers, including First Minister Alex
| Salmond, want the Court of Session to rule
| that the Commissioner doesnât have the
| right to ask the Government for
| information as part of his FOI
| investigations. This comes after Mr Dunion
| launched a freedom of information probe
| after ministers turned down a request to
| see government files. When the Government
| refused to provide the files, the
| Commissioner issued an âinformation
| noticeâ against ministers, demanding they
| provide more details.
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http://heatherbrooke.org/2010/03/censorship-in-scotland/
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