The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against three agencies of the Department of Justice (DOJ) today, demanding records about problems or limitations that hamper electronic surveillance and potentially justify or undermine the Administration’s new calls for expanded surveillance powers. The issue has been in the headlines for more than a month, kicked off by…
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UK: Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: When it comes to wasting police time, the biggest offenders appear to be…the police. That, at least, appears to be the conclusion of the Home Office. Its official statistics, published today, show that while police stopped over 100,000 individuals last year to “prevent acts of terrorism”, there was not a single arrest for…
Article: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech
Neil Richards has an article, “The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech” in the Vanderbilt Law Review (2010). Here’s the abstract: Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech are always in conflict, even though each of these traditions can be traced back to writings by Louis D. Brandeis—his 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right…
Calling all Freedom Fighters – Parliament debate on ‘Privacy and the Internet’ tomorrow open to public
Calling all Freedom Fighters! Tomorrow (Thursday 28th October) there is a very exciting debate taking place in Westminster Hall in Parliament. The debate will discuss ‘Privacy and the Internet’ and it is expected that there will be a particular focus on Google. The debate is open to the public and we urge as many of you as…