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There is a growing concern in the U.S. about state sponsored Internet censorship in countries throughout the world. Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman at Harvard are skillfully documenting this activity. Now Congress is responding to Web filtering with a bi-partisan legislative initiative, H.R. 5524. This bill seeks to “develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet …
This site comes via the University of Minnesota Law School, its librarians and student assistants. It provides annotated links to dozens of first amendment cases from the Supreme Court (current and retrospective), as well as Courts of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court. In addition, there are links to primary sources for researchers, historical materials …
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (ISP) hosts several resources focused on how the Internet, intellectual property and telecommunications impact our civil liberties. The site posts working papers and information about policy initiatives. In addition, the project sponsors a provocative, insightful, and informative searchable weblog, LawMeme, with commentary on legal-tech issues provided by …
This DOJ Factsheet indicates that the Office of Legal Policy will play a major role in Patriot Act related issues of security, privacy and surveillance.
Surveillance, privacy, a secret court, the Constitution and the fight against terrorism are all elements in a public debate in which the legal ramifications of 9-11 continue to impact the lives of Americans. Civil liberties groups including the ACLU, EPIC and the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed an amicus brief on September 19 with …
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) posted a pithy chronology of major federal government proposals, laws and guidelines resulting from 9-11. To the right of the list is a scrolling group of statements attributed to politicians and editoral commentary from major papers, on the importance of maintaining the freedoms so fundamental to our democracy.
A survey conducted in May 2002, commissioned by the Brookings Institution, indicates that the spike in overall support for the government, media and corporations that occured after 9-11 has very much subsided.
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights released an important set of documents, in PDF, that focus on the legal ramifications of 9-11 to American society and the legal process. A 79 page report report, along with a corresponding set of recommendations, and a chronology by date of the government’s restrictions on civil liberties …
