The New York Times will break this tomorrow, but it seems the NSA has been ‘overcollecting’ while trying to listen into calls from suspected terrorists that go through the United States in some way / shape / form. Apparently it was reported by the NSA to the Congress, but the Congress was none too happy [...]
This makes five if you lost count.
Monday’s naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department’s deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Gershengorn, [...]
Ah, idealistic youth.
The Register is running a story today about the wide-eyed technologist who followed Barrack Obama to Washington and were ready to demand the entire government move to a Web2.0 environment. But then they ran into the paperwork.
The first thing McLaughlin ran into was the government’s acquisition and procurement rules, which apply to almost [...]
That is the question the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is asking:
You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question.
Traditionally, it has been the job of the “first sale” doctrine to enable gift giving — that’s the provision of copyright law that entitles the owner of a CD, book, or other [...]
The slick-looking new WhiteHouse.gov will be the subject of some periodic blog reviews from the Washington Post. The reviewers included Craig Newmark of Craigslist fame and David Weinberger of the Cluetrain manifesto. Newmark, a strong Obama supporter, gave the redesigned website the highest grade of the review panel, but overall the reviews came back as [...]
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