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The following articles are available in the December 2006 issue of LLRX.com: Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World – Updated, by Kathy Biehl Criminal Justice Resources – Criminal Justice Blogs, by Ken Strutin A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases, by Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman Deep Web Research Research 2007, …
Ensuring Liberty And Security Through Checks And Balances: A Fresh Start For The Senate Judiciary Committee In The New 110th Congress, December 13, 2006 – By Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, United States Senate. “When it comes to protecting Americans privacy, what we have today are analog rules in a digital …
Press release: “Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and Senator John E. Sununu (R-NH) introduced legislation [on December 8, 2006] to repeal Title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, which they believe places an unrealistic and unfunded burden on state governments and erodes Americans’ civil liberties and privacy rights. The Identification Security Enhancement Act …
Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining, by Jeff Jonas [engineer and chief scientist with IBM’s Entity Analytic Solutions Group] and Jim Harper [director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute]. “Though data mining has many valuable uses, it is not well suited to the terrorist discovery problem. It would be …
Review of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Detainee Tracking Process, OIG-07-08 (PDF, 17 pages) December 6, 2006.
Press release: “Following up on their earlier efforts to prevent the stripping of fundamental legal protections in the Military Commissions Act, Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have introduced the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006 [Congressional Record text]. The bill would restore basic legal and human rights for 12 million lawful permanent …
U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery: “…the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper recommending that federal standards allow certification only for “software independent” (i.e. ones that create a paper trail) e-voting systems. A key technical panel will consider and vote upon the recommendations this [week]. Calling these …
American Council for the Blind v. Henry M. Pauson, Secretary of the Treasury, November 28, 2006, District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge James Robertson rules, “Treasury Department’s failure to design, produce and issue paper currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired” people violates federal law, since paper money effectively precludes …
Press release: “The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) succeeded in having two key provisions of a Bush administration anti-terrorism initiative ruled unconstitutional. Los Angeles U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins ruled in Humanitarian Law Project v. Department of Treasury that the law, an Executive Order issued shortly after 9/11 and used to blacklist hundreds of …
November 27, 2006 statement: “Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims …
The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, “psiphon is…a human rights software project…that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind …
The complete November 2006 issue is available at www.llrx.com There are 15 new articles in total, so please visit the homepage for links to and abstracts of all this month’s content. Many thanks to all the authors, and have a safe and happy holiday. Leveraging Blogs, RSS, News Alerts and Different Search Engines to Expand …
