Jim Abrams of Associated Press reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to extend until the end of 2013 three post-Sept. 11 terror-fighting practices that have raised concerns among civil liberties groups. At the same time, the legislation, which was approved on a 10-7, mainly party-line vote, would end in December 2013 the investigative…
Category: Laws
Pineda and the Law of the Jungle
Chris Hoofnagle writes: A fair amount of misinformation has been generated surrounding the California Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Pineda v. Williams Sonoma, 51 Cal.4th 524, 2011 WL 446921. In Pineda, the Court held that a zip code could qualify as personal information under the State’s Song-Beverly Act. This means that companies that collect the…
GOP resurrecting RealID bugaboo
Bob Barr comments: Like the little girl said in the 1982 movie, Poltergeist, “They’re baaaaack.” In real life, it’s not the evil spirits emerging from haunted television sets that are returning, but the discredited national identification card program, known as “RealID.” This law was passed in 2005 by Republicans in the Congress and supported by President…
Hearing on “The Reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act” Weds.
House Committee on the Judiciary Wednesday 3/9/2011 – 1:30 p.m. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Witness List Mr. Todd Hinnen Acting Assistant Attorney General National Security Division Department of Justice Mr. Robert S. Litt General Counsel Office of the Director of National Intelligence Mr. Nathan Sales Assistant Professor…