Alan Charles Raul is a lawyer in Washington who previously served as vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget. Here’s a snippet from his OpEd in a recent issue of Washington Post: A good start to untangling all this would be establishing…
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“I Like Ike”
I was thinking about the NSA and the scare tactics used by some members of Congress to persuade Americans to abandon liberties for so-called “security.” And then I stumbled across this quote from President Eisenhower at a speech he gave in 1949: If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll…
Shield law “threatens investigative journalism” – Reporters Without Borders
Well, EFF seems to see at least some positives in the shield law that made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, but Reporters Without Borders has a dimmer view: The draft federal law on the protection of journalists’ sources – the so-called media “shield law” – that the Senate Judiciary Committee approved…
Senate Revises Media Shield Law for the Better, But It’s Still Imperfect
David Greene of EFF writes: The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids…