Online privacy? Phffft!

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Got these gems in the e-mail today. If this don't chill your blood, I don't know what will. (Hate to be on the same side as the ACLU, but they happen to be fighting the good fight on these.)

First, we have the courts saying there's no right to internet anonymity:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39485,00.html

Then, even before Carnivore is fully deployed, the FBI is working on an even more powerful version:
http://www.foxnews.com/national/101300/carnivoretwo_riley.sml

But hey. Anything to help in the War on (insert boogeyman de jour here), right?



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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
 
The first article simply extends existing libel and slander laws to electonic media. If a newspaper publishes a defamatory letter to the editor, with "name and address withheld by request", the newspaper can be required to divulge the writer's name if a court determines that the letter was actionable.

The second article is the real threat. It's an extension of the bogus "war on drugs" mentality. They will violate the rights of a million innocents for the odd chance of catching one guilty person.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Scott:
The first article simply extends existing libel and slander laws to electonic media. [/quote]

If that's all it was, it'd be no big deal. But I didn't get that from the article. I'm not a lwayer, but this particular paragraph makes more than a little sense to me:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The ACLU had wanted the court first to rule on whether Hyde had actually been defamed before identifying the defendants, named in court papers only as John Doe. If there was no showing of defamation, the ACLU reasoned, the critics should remain anonymous.[/quote]



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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
 
At the GRPC one of the speakers had an interesting point

Right after that Airliner blew up over the NY coast, there were regulations signed for a new anti terrorism act.

Now we hear that an electrical malfunction caused the explosion in the gas tanks, but we still have the new laws...

We have to fight this stuff before it gets on the books!

dZ
 
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