'Civil Liberties' Category
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Privacy: Feds want more access to student records
November 24, 2004AP Wire | 11/24/2004 | Higher ed officials question request to access student records Higher education officials in South Carolina are concerned about a proposal that would give the federal government more access to individual student records…. The U.S. Department of Education says it wants more information about students as a way to better track [...]
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The Arrival Of Secret Law
November 18, 2004The Arrival Of Secret Law by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, Volume 2004, Issue No. 100. November 14, 2004. Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know. This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory. It is part of a continuing [...]
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More public interest groups opposed to Gonzales
November 15, 2004The Quaint Mr. Gonzales More public interest groups — such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU (although they officially take no position, they call for a full and thorough hearing) — are coming out and voicing their displeasure over President Bush’s choice for attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. There’s no [...]
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ALA renews call for privacy protections
November 12, 2004ALA | In wake of Ashcroft departure, American Library Association renews call for return to privacy protections That’s all well and good, but the library community shouldn’t count on a change of policy from Alberto Gonzales, Bush’s new nominee for Attorney General. This is the same person who wrote the memo to the president calling [...]
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US Gov. says: “We seize servers, you can’t complain”
November 12, 2004We seize servers, you can’t complain – US gov, By John Lettice, The Register, 11th November 2004 12:22 GMT. In case you haven’t been following the rather bizarre case of the seizure by the US Government of web servers in London, [yes, London, UK], here is a bit of an update. The adjective “Kafkaesque” is [...]
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Ghost of Nixon in Bush whitehouse
October 17, 2004Arts > Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/arts/17rich.html?ex=1255492800&en=8c2a594add800736&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’? (NYT: 10/17/04 Arts section) “The fundamental right of Americans, through our free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government is under attack as never before,” wrote William Safire [...]
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NLG report “Assault on free speech”
September 23, 2004National Lawyers Guild The National Lawyers Guild last month released a report entitled, “The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent.” (PDF) In it, they interviewed people from across the United States and documented the “ongoing reaction of law enforcement to the legal exercise of free speech in the US.” In short, they found [...]
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Weapons of mass delusion
September 14, 2004Weapons of mass delusion by Richard Forno I wouldn’t normally advertise new books, but this one’s of interest, both for its content examining American culture since September 11, and for the fact that he’s just released it under a Creative Commons license.
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Herbert: voter intimidation in FL
August 23, 2004Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Suppress the Vote?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/opinion/16herbert.html?hp”> Bob Herbert: Suppress the Vote? (NY Times, 8/16/04) and Herbert: A chill in Florida (NY Times, 8/23/04) . (Free registration required) Here’s more chicanery from the republican party in Florida, a swing state and state where thousands of mostly black voters were disenfranchised in the 2000 election [...]
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2004 State of the First Amendment survey results
July 2, 2004firstamendmentcenter.org: AmericansÕ support for their First Amendment freedoms Ñ deeply shaken by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 Ñ continues to rebound and is back at pre-9/11 levels, according to the annual State of the First Amendment survey, conducted by the First Amendment Center in collaboration with American Journalism Review magazine.