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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.
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| 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
Recent:
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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