David Kravets reports: Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. The law already allows, but does not automatically require, phone companies to turn over ping data from cell…
Category: U.S.
Northwestern journalism students fight subpoenas
The Student Press Law Center reports: Journalism students working on the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are fighting subpoenas requesting their grades, off-the-record interviews, electronic communications, notes, course syllabi, grading criteria for the course and receipts for expenses that students incurred for their investigation of the case of Anthony McKinney,…
Ohio high court hears online communications case
Julie Carr Smyth of Associated Press reports: Booksellers, video game dealers, newspaper publishers and other critics of an online child protection law encountered skepticism from state Supreme Court justices Tuesday for their free-speech arguments. A coalition led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression has challenged laws throughout the country aimed at protecting children…
House of Representatives Enters PATRIOT Fray With Two New Surveillance Reform Bills
Kevin Bankston of EFF writes: This afternoon, leaders in the House of Representatives introduced their own USA PATRIOT Act reform bill, responding to the disappointing PATRIOT renewal bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee two weeks ago. The new bill — the USA Patriot Amendments Act of 2009 (HR 3845) — was introduced by House…