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[News] New Push from EFF for Civil Rights

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EFF Joins With Internet Companies and Advocacy Groups to Reform Privacy Law

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| As part of a broad coalition of privacy 
| groups, think tanks, technology companies, 
| and academics, the Electronic Frontier 
| Foundation (EFF) today issued 
| recommendations for strengthening the 
| federal privacy law that regulates 
| government access to private phone and 
| Internet communications and records, 
| including cell phone location data.
| 
| The "Digital Due Process" coalition 
| includes major Internet and 
| telecommunications companies like Google, 
| Microsoft, and AT&T as well as advocacy 
| groups such as the American Civil Liberties 
| Union (ACLU) and the Center for Democracy & 
| Technology (CDT). The coalition has joined 
| together to preserve traditional privacy 
| rights and clarify legal protections in the 
| face of a rapidly changing technological 
| landscape.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/03/30

Spoof site mocks tourism push

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| TOURISM Australia is investigating legal 
| action against an internet "brandjacker'' 
| who is lampooning its new $150 million 
| advertising campaign.
| 
| The site is targeting Tourism Australia's 
| new campaign, There's nothing like 
| Australia.
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http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/spoof-site-mocks-tourism-push/story-e6frg2rc-1225848542130

The Vigilantes of Comedy: A Guest Post

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| Late one Saturday night in February 2007, a 
| stand-up comic named Joe Rogan decided to 
| take the law into his own hands.  Rogan, a 
| well-known comedian, was on stage at The 
| Comedy Store in Los Angeles, one of the 
| nationâs most important comedy clubs.  For 
| weeks, Rogan had been furious over reports 
| from fellow comedians that an even more 
| famous stand-up, Carlos Mencia, had stolen 
| a joke from one of Roganâs friends, a 
| relatively obscure comedian named Ari 
| Schaffer.  Rogan spotted Mencia in the 
| audience, and he blew up.  Slamming Mencia 
| as âCarlos Menstealia,â Rogan accused his 
| rival of joke thievery.  Mencia rushed the 
| stage to defend himself, and there began a 
| long, loud, and profane confrontation.
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http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/the-vigilantes-of-comedy-a-guest-post/

N.J. Supreme Court upholds privacy of personal e-mails accessed at work

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| A company should not have read e-mails a 
| former employee wrote to her lawyer from a 
| private, password-protected web account, 
| even though she sent them from her 
| employerâs computer, according to a state 
| Supreme Court ruling today that attorneys 
| said could influence workplace privacy 
| rules across the country.
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/nj_supreme_court_sets_new_ruli.html


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Epic Fail in Congress: USA PATRIOT Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections

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| Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of
| Representatives voted overwhelmingly to
| renew three expiring provisions of the USA
| PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the
| PATRIOT reform effort and approved the
| extension by a voice vote on Wednesday
| night.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/epic-fail-congress-usa-patriot-act-renewed-without
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