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Your Boss, Your Blackberry, and Your PrivacyIn a recent case involving employer monitoring of an employee’s communications, a federal judge asked, “What are the legal boundaries of an employee’s privacy in this interconnected, electronic-communication age?†The New York Times’ Room for Debate blog asked six knowledgeable people ...
Jerry Bowles
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Organizations: sign onto letter opposing secret copyright treaty! Boing BoingA worldwide coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations, consumers unions and online service providers associations publish an open letter to the European institutions regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) currently under negotiation. They call on the European Parliament and ...
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What Google knows about you"Google knows more about you than your mother." Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made that statement to this reporter. A few years ago, it might have sounded far-fetched. But if you're one of the growing number of people who are using more ...
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Patent Office presses rewind on broad digital music patentOverturning bad patents does not happen at Internet speed, and if you need evidence for that thesis, consider the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project. The group set out to overturn 10 hugely broad patents back in 2004; four years later, only six of the patent reexamination ...
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11 months ago
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EFF, Public Knowledge Sue US Gov't Over Secret IP PactTwo digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret international treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws. The ...
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Sci-Tech Today | Suit Seeks Information on U.S. Cell-Phone TrackingThe American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are seeking information about the possible use of cell-phone tracking to spy on individuals without a court order. The groups say the Department of Justice failed to respond to a request last year. The suit says the public ...
JDP
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)Back in the late 1980's there was a group of people called 'Legion of Doom'. Their two leaders The Mentor and Erik Bloodaxe lived here in Austin, TX. The Mentor ran their BBS called The Phoenix Project, I was member #19 Ravage. The Mentor worked for Steve Jackson as an editor on the 'Cyberpunk' ...
James Choate
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Code as 'law' (ala Lessig), EFF, ACLU, Cypherpunks, et aliIf one is interested in Lessig's 'code as law', EFF, ACLU, Cypherpunks, etc.; is this the right place? I'm trying to better understand your bounds here. I was involved in EFF when it started up here in Austin over Steve Jackson, ran one of the Cypherpunks servers for years, and am currently ...
James Choate
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