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'Civil Liberties' Category
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Digital Fingerprints
January 29, 2007There is a fascinating article in Science News about how scientists are investigating ways to identify individuals based on the rhythm of their keystrokes when they type and their individual patterns of using a mouse. This research goes beyond, but is complemented by, research in text analysis that can sometimes identify authorship of a piece [...]
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Feeling repressed?
February 2, 2006Tech firms blasted over China policies on Capitol Hill Tech companies are starting to (rightfully!) catch a lot of flack over their complicity to restrict speech and other human rights in China. But now the rabble is aroused! See boingboing for the whole story. The coolest action vs google is by the organization Students for [...]
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NYPD infiltrate protests
December 22, 2005Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show By JIM DWYER Published: December 22, 2005 Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a [...]
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Government spying on protestors
September 9, 2005Spying on the Protesters, by JOHN S. FRIEDMAN The Nation, [from the September 19, 2005 issue]. “…the FBI was more interested in intimidation than in trying to gather information.”
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US Government shuts down independent news: update
August 6, 2005Last November, we noted the story about the US Government seizing web servers in London (US Gov. says: “We seize servers, you can’t complain”). Now an update from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Secret Documents About Indymedia Server Disappearance Unsealed EFF last week won a motion allowing it to access sealed court documents about the [...]
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U.S. Government blacklists Sites On Cuba
July 11, 2005Feds blacklist ‘illegal’ Cuban Web sites By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, July 8, 2005. In a lengthy regulation (“Alphabetical Listing of Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers“) published in the Federal Register, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, lists web sites [...]
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See Tom Ridge Hide Behind the Flag
February 2, 2005This is so odd, I just don’t know what to think about it. Perhaps someone can explain it to me? Watch closely as you load this pdf file http://www.adcouncil.org/pdf/homeland_magazine_flag_13x21.pdf from the AdCouncil and you may see a picture of Tom Ridge behind the picture of the flag. If you don’t see it, try resizing the [...]
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Study of High School and First Amendment
January 31, 2005Survey Finds First Amendment Is Being Left Behind in U.S. High Schools. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Jan. 31, 2005. A new study, The Future of the First Amendment, of high school student, teachers, and administrators shows a shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment by high school students. Among the findings: [...]
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Privacy: Selective Service System and Dept. of Ed
December 1, 2004Computer Matching Between the Selective Service System and the Department of Education Federal Register, November 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 213) [Page 64353]. [Notices] FR Doc 04-24634. Computerized access to the Selective Service Registrant Registration Records (SSS 10) enables ED to confirm the registration status of applicants for assistance under Title IV of the Higher [...]
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Privacy: More about Feds wanting more access to student records
December 1, 2004Education > Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/education/29college.html?oref=login”>Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, The New York Times, November 29, 2004, Late Edition – Final, Section A; Column 1; National Desk; Pg. 19. A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database [...]
