Day archives: July 9th, 2011

EFF: Prosecutors Demand Laptop Password in Violation of Fifth Amendment

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in Colorado today to block the government’s attempt to force a woman to enter a password into an encrypted laptop, arguing in an amicus brief that it would violate her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. A defendant in this case, Ramona Fricosu, is accused of fraudulent …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Legal Research

Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era

Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era, Suzanne Mettler. Perspectives on Politics, September 2010 | Vol. 8/No. 3 “President Barack Obama came into office with a social welfare policy agenda that aimed to reconstitute what can be understood as the submerged state: a conglomeration of existing federal policies …

Subjects: Government Documents

EFF: Prosecutors Demand Laptop Password in Violation of Fifth Amendment

Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era

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