Leahy: Judiciary Committee Will Hold Two Hearings On Drones . . . Separate Hearings Focusing On Domestic Use and Targeted Killings WASHINGTON (Wednesday, March 13, 2013) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee, today announced two upcoming hearings on the issue of drones beginning…
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WA: Outsourced website no cost to state
What’s that old adage that if something looks too good to be true….? Jordan Schrader reports: State government plans to outsource the operation of its main face on the Internet to a private company that it says can run the Access Washington website at no cost to state taxpayers. Kansas-based NIC Inc. will, of course,…
Not So Settled: FTC Language Change Could Add Liability
E. J. Schultz reports: When faced with allegations of false advertising, the goal for most marketers is pretty simple: settle and stay out of court. But that might be harder to do as the Federal Trade Commission begins taking a harder line on deals, requiring new boilerplate language that ad lawyers say could harm the…
Google Transparency Report: Shedding more light on National Security Letters
From Google’s blog today: .. When conducting national security investigations, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation can issue a National Security Letter (NSL) to obtain identifying information about a subscriber from telephone and Internet companies. The FBI has the authority to prohibit companies from talking about these requests. But we’ve been trying to find a…