Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver’s licenses, Homeland Security Department and congressional officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to repeal…
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U.S. Court Weighs E-mail Privacy, Again
In a replay of a court decision from two years ago, civil liberties groups are once again trying to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that e-mail messages deserve the same privacy protection as telephone calls. On Wednesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU of Ohio, and the Center for Democracy…