Lawsuit Against Craigslist Alleges Discriminatory Housing Ads
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. Craigslist, Inc. Case 1:06-cv-00657, Filed 02/03/2006, 20 pages, PDF. The Fair Housing Act
Category «Civil Liberties»
Advocacy Group Proposes Legislation to Protection Online Political Speech
“CDT today offered a legislative proposal that would exempt the vast majority of individual speakers on the Internet from campaign finance laws, without creating loopholes that could be easily exploited by state political parties and large donors. CDT drafted the proposal in response to mounting efforts in the House of Representatives to pass a measure …
Patriot Act Reauthorization Passed by Senate
The vote was 89-10, with the following senators voting against the reauthorization: Sen. Akaka (D-HI); Sen. Bingaman (D-NM); Sen. Byrd (D-WV; Sen. Feingold (D-WI); Sen. Harkin (D-IA); Sen. Jeffords (I-VT); Sen. Leahy (D-VT); Sen. Levin (D-MI); Sen. Murray (D-WA) and Sen. Wyden (D-OR). Related postings on Patriot Act
Senate Approves Patriot Act Amendments In 95-4 Vote
Statement of Senator Russ Feingold On Opposition to Ending Debate on the Patriot Act, As Read From the Senate Floor, March 1, 2006. Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Committee On The Judiciary, PATRIOT Act Reauthorization, March 1, 2006 AP: Senate OKs Limiting Patriot Act Powers Related postings on Patriot Act
Commentary on China and Net Censorship
Follow-up to recent postings on Internet companies and operational issues concerning censorship in China, see this commentary from The Nation, America’s Online Censors by Rebecca Mackinnon.
Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority II
Hearing: Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority II, Senate Judiciary Committee, Full Committee, February 28, 2006. Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Judiciary Committee: “Attorney General Gonzales’ conduct has made the Bush-Cheney Administration’s position crystal clear: It claims there is no place for congressional or judicial oversight of any of its activities …
New York Times Sues Defense For Surveillance Documents
Follow-up to the article that started the relentless investigation into the issue of domestic surveillance…news this evening that the New York Times has sued the Dept. of Defense pursuant to a FOIA request to obtain documents related to the government’s monitoring of citizen communications.
NSA Expands Data Mining Progam With Purchase of New Tech Tools
Follow-up to National Journal Article Claims Curtailed Gov’t Surveillance Program Still Active, from today’s New York Times, Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data: “…by fundamentally changing the nature of surveillance, high-tech data mining raises privacy concerns that are only beginning to be debated widely. That is because to …
Commentary Focuses on Civil Liberties Issue in Domestic Surveillance Controversy
Why Should Anyone Worry About Whose Communications Bush and Cheney Are Intercepting, If It Helps To Find Terrorists? by John W. Dean “Here, I will look only at the issue of whether the average American has anything to truly be worried about, as NSA electronically sifts through endless digital exchanges to find the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack.” …
USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 (S. 2271)
CRS Report: USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 (S. 2271) – “S. 22711 amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the five federal statutes providing national security letter (NSL) authority to federal intelligence investigators in the following manner: (1) it grants recipients of a Section 215 order the express right to …
EU Approves New Data Retention Directive
EU press release, 21 February 2006 (21 pages, PDF) See also EU action plan on combatting terrorism, 13 February 2006 (38 pages, PDF)
Study of State Voter Registration Database Security
Press release, Association for Computing Machinery, February 16, 2006: “Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today making almost 100 recommendations to state and local officials charged with creating and managing statewide voter registration databases (VRDs). The report is a …
