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Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this News release: “A federal district court has granted the Department of Homeland Security’s motion to conclude one of EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. EPIC was seeking more than 2,000 images generated by airport body scanners held by the …
News release: “…the FCC announced a challenge to researchers and software developers to engage in research and create apps that help consumers foster, measure, and protect Internet openness. The Open Internet Challenge is part of the FCCs efforts to empower end users to help preserve Internet openness. Details of the challenge are posted at openinternet.gov/challenge. …
LMU Professor Presents Case for Dolphins as Nonhuman Persons at Science Conference: “Are dolphins nonhuman persons? Loyola Marymount University professor Thomas White insists they are, and presented his research this week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego. White, the author of In Defense of Dolphins: The New Frontier, …
PEOPLE v. DIAZ, Criminal Appeal, Start Date: 09/09/2008. Opinion issued – Petition for review after the Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment of conviction of a criminal offense. This case presents the following issues: (1) Was defendant’s cell phone an item “immediately associated with the person of the arrestee” within the meaning of United States …
California Lawyer, January 2011 – Legally Speaking, The Originalist – Question: ‘In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we’ve gone off in error …
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of a new paper, Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing, by Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey.” “In this paper, we discuss the possible impact of digital technologies in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes. We …
Net Neutrality as Diplomacy, Jonathan Zittrain. Vol. 29, Yale Law & Policy Review, December 2010. “Popular imagination holds that the turf of a states foreign embassy is a little patch of its homeland. Enter the American Embassy in Beijing and you are in the United States. Indeed, in many contexts such as resistance to …
Washington Post: Auditors question TSA’s use of and spending on technology: “The massive push to fix airport security in the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led to a gold rush in technology contracts for an industry that mushroomed almost overnight. Since it was founded in 2001, the TSA has spent roughly …
Small Change – Why the revolution will not be tweeted, by Malcolm Gladwell: “he world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making …
“The number of adults under correctional supervision in the United States declined by less than one percent during 2009, dropping to 7,225,800 (or 48,800 fewer offenders than at yearend 2008), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was the first measured decline in the total number of adults under correctional supervision since BJS …
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to share a new report, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites by Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York, John Palfrey “Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for …
NYT: “The Senate on Saturday struck down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep secret their sexual orientation. By a vote of 65 to 31, with eight …
