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Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Posted on July 4, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

President Obama hosted a reception for LGBT Pride Month and discussed repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Watch CBS Videos Online

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UK ID plan scrapped

Posted on July 4, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

After much brouhaha, the plan is scrapped. Somewhat.

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Court upholds Accusearch ruling

Posted on July 4, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

The 10th Circuit has upheld (pdf) a ruling against Accusearch that the company violated federal law when it sold telephone records on its web site, Abika.com. The Federal Trade Commission had alleged that Accusearch’s trade in telephone records constituted an unfair practice in violation of § 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA). Accusearch…

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Bozeman MT to job applicants: give us your login/pwd

Posted on July 3, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Bozeman MT had a policy of requiring job applicants to provide their user/pwd to social media sites. After the story got picked up in the national media, they rescinded the policy, and are now investigating how and why they even had that policy. The following video is from when the story first broke:

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