The Associated Press reports: Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans’ civil rights and privacy with the need to keep…
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NYC Dept. of Education Going After Teen ‘Sexting’ — In The Home
Parents and schools struggle with the role technology plays in kids’ lives. But a new push to keep them safe has some saying it goes too far. Schools now want to punish students caught “sexting” — no matter where they do it. The Department of Education wants to ban both cyber bullying and sexting in…
UK: Government delays scrapping of ContactPoint
Phil Muncaster reports: The coalition government has decided not to shelve the controversial ContactPoint database immediately, saying instead that its operations will be scaled down gradually. ContactPoint was designed to improve child protection by increasing the amount of information shared between government departments. It holds information on all children under the age of 18. However,…
Increased PATRIOT Act Oversight is Welcome News for Reader Privacy Advocates
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, which has been fighting to restore privacy safeguards for library and bookstore records that were stripped away by the Patriot Act, warmly welcomed an announcement by the Inspector General (IG) of the Justice Department that he plans to begin a new investigation into how the government is using Patriot Act…