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Posted on 27/02/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yesterday, the Supreme Court sadly dismissed the ACLU’s case, Clapper v. Amnesty International, which challenged the FISA Amendments Act (FAA)—the unconstitutional law that allows the government to wiretap Americans communcating with people overseas. Under the FAA, the government can conduct this surveillance without naming individuals and without a traditional probable cause warrant, as the Fourth Amendment requires.
The court didn’t address the constitutionality of the FAA itself, but...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Citizen Media Law Project
I've already written several posts about the overblown predictions
that a ruling involving an Oregon blogger (now on appeal) would have dire consequences
for bloggers in that state. But a recent decision by Iowa's Supreme
Court on who can be considered "news media" under Iowa law may truly
endanger bloggers and other online contributors in that state.
The issue is that the Iowa Supreme Court decided to maintain the distinction in Iowa state law between "media" and "...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Citizen Media Law Project
I've already written several posts about the overblown predictions
that a ruling involving an Oregon blogger (now on appeal) would have dire consequences
for bloggers in that state. But a recent decision by Iowa's Supreme
Court on who can be considered "news media" under Iowa law may truly
endanger bloggers and other online contributors in the Hawkeye State.
The issue is that the Iowa Supreme Court decided to maintain the distinction in Iowa state law between "media" and...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From The Citizen Lab
Source: The Globe and Mail
The political leader of exiled Tibetans is calling on Canada’s ambassador for religious freedom to investigate religious repression and suicide in his homeland, squeezing the week-old post into a tricky diplomatic position.
Lobsang Sangay, the head of the Central Tibetan Administration (also known as the Tibetan Government in Exile), made his plea while visiting Ottawa this week to seek support for Tibetan autonomy. He argued that growing business connections between...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From The Citizen Lab
Source: Chris Soghoian and Naomi Gilens, American Civil Liberties Union
Cell phone searches are a common law enforcement tool, but up until now, the public has largely been in the dark regarding how much sensitive information the government can get with this invasive surveillance technique. A document submitted to court in connection with a drug investigation, which we recently discovered, provides a rare inventory of the types of data that federal agents are able to obtain from a seized...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From APC
DELHI
26 February 2013
(Caroline Tagny for APCNews)
APC, in partnership with Point of View and the Internet Democracy Project, is conducting a workshop in Delhi, India, from 25 – 28 February 2013. More than 20 sexual and internet rights organisations are discussing ways to resist content regulation and increasing their knowledge of online security and privacy.
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Global Voices Advocacy
Note: Article [es] by Derechos Digitales originally published in Spanish, translated by Silvia Viñas.
In a previous post in the #NoTemasaInternet [es] (Don’t Fear the Internet) series, we explained why exceptions to copyright are necessary and desirable, especially in digital contexts, like this video shows:
After civil society mobilizations [es] and debates took place around Chile's new intellectual property law, Chilean advocates managed to expand the rules on exceptions to copyright....
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Michael Geist
The government's recent decision to kill its online surveillance
legislation marked a remarkable policy shift. The outcry over the plan
to require Internet providers to install surveillance capabilities
within their networks and to disclose subscriber information on demand
without court oversight sparked an enormous backlash, leading to the
tacit acknowledgment that the proposal was at odds with public opinion.
While many Canadians welcomed the end of Bill C-30, my weekly technology law column...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA—the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—was reintroduced in February 2013. Just like last year, the bill has stirred a tremendous amount of grassroots activism because it carves a loophole in all known privacy laws and grants legal immunity for companies to share your private information. EFF has compiled an FAQ detailing how the bill's major provisions work and how they endanger all Internet users' privacy. Please join us in speaking out against CISPA by...
Posted on 26/02/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is pleased to see the Indiegogo campaign page of Internet startup CentUp has returned after the page was briefly taken down in response to a complaint by a patent troll. We hope this takedown is not the start of a trend of patent trolls sabotaging startups by complaining to online intermediaries. And we applaud Indiegogo, a crowdfunding platform crucial for financing many startups and projects, for doing the right thing and restoring the campaign.
Some background: CentUp is a new company...