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• Reining in ACTA: Update and Call to Action

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Reining in ACTA: Update and Call to Action : Via EFF.org Updates . Last week saw the latest round of secret negotiations on ACTA, on criminal enforcement of IP, enforcement in the digital environment, and, according to one of the few public documents on the negotiations, ACTAs own "transparency". Its hard to ...
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• Court: Compulsory taking of DNA from pretrial detainee violates Fourth Amendment

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  FourthAmendment.com brings us a court opinion out of Pennsylvania that is quoteworthy: A DNA profile generates investigatory evidence that is primarily used by law enforcement officials for general law enforcement purposes. To allow such suspicionless searches, which are conducted in almost all instances with law ...
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• Daily Mail (UK): Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The Daily Mail has a story that reminds me of Operation Terrorism Information and Prevention System, the TIPS program proposed by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2002 (read more about TIPS after the jump). The Daily Mail reports:A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their ...
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• Events of Interest: Georgetown Law Panel on Biometrics (Nov. 10)

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law will hold an event today, “Biometrics and the Law.” From the site:Biometric ID systems have the capacity to automatically identify and track individuals based on stored data on their biological and behavioral characteristics, including facial features, ...
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• Poll: Spying On Innocents in FBI Operation BITE ME?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  You may remember that on Tuesday, we responded to revelations of a newly expanded FBI program of covert surveillance against innocent people — and the FBI’s declaration that they didn’t want this program referred to as “spying” — with a poll. Our poll asks, golly, if we can’t call the FBI spying ...
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• U.S. v. Cioffi

  
  JOLT Digest — Authority: 120
  Court Suppresses Email Evidence in Bear Sterns Case By Stuart K. Tubis – Edited by Jad Mills U.S. v. Cioffi, et al., Case No. 08-CR-415 (FB) (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 26, 2009) Slip Opinion (hosted by WSJ) The Eastern District of New York granted defendant Matthew Tannin’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from his ...
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• Three UCLA Law Review Articles About Privacy, Civil Liberties

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The current UCLA Law Review has three articles about privacy and civil liberties. (1) From Privacy To Liberty: The Fourth Amendment After Lawrence by Thomas P. Crocker, (2) Who Can Sue Over Government Surveillance? by Scott Michelman, and (3) The Right to Control One’s Name by Julia Shear Kushner.University of South ...
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• Billings Gazette: Montana lawmakers have twice rejected prescription monitoring

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The Billings Gazette reports that the Montana legislature has rejected the creation of a prescription monitoring database for the second time in two years by tabling House Bill 267.In 2007, the Montana Board of Crime Control received a $50,000 federal grant to plan a monitoring program. It missed out on another ...
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• Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee : Via EFF.org Updates . After a long two days of legislative battle, the House Judiciary Committee just finished its second day of debate on Chairman Conyers PATRIOT reform bill, HR 3845 (see our wrap-up of the first day ). ...
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• Ninth Circuit Considers Super-En-Banc for Comprehensive Drug Testing

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  I haven’t blogged recently about the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster computer search and seizure decision in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing , although not because it hasn’t been on my mind: Among computer crime law folks, it’s topic #1 these days. Indeed, since the en banc decision was handed ...
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• Eliot Engel’s Border Search Reform Not Enacted

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 476
  Take your laptop with you on an international business trip, and U.S. border agents can take it from you and search its contents, without ever telling you why theyre doing it. Eliot Engel is trying to change that policy.
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• Tel Aviv University researcher: Kids’ right-to-privacy for their genetic material needs better protection

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  Tel Aviv University announces a researcher’s recent article in Science (Children and Population Biobanks, which is behind a pay wall) concerning the privacy of children’s DNA. (In July, the Washington Post had a story on the privacy of newborn children’s DNA, noting that sometimes the medical data is collected ...
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• Calif. Justices Seem OK With DNA-Based Warrant

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  Mike McKee reports: …..  At issue in People v. Robinson , S158528, is whether an unknown suspect’s DNA profile — as opposed to a physical description — can satisfy the so-called particularity requirement for issuing a “John Doe” warrant, and whether such warrants toll the statute of limitations for ...
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• The (Dark) Convenience of the Cloud

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 529
  Heres a reminder about the potentially weak legal privacy protections for email and other information sent or stored online in the cloud computing paradigm. I focus on a James Fallows piece, as opposed to one of the legal blog posts on the topic (ht/CA) as of late, because I think his concerns about the ...
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• New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions : Via EFF.org Updates . Advertisement: [ Read more ... ] Bookmark/Search this post with: Twitter Digg StumbleUpon Technorati del.icio.us Facebook Furl &source;=Privacy+Digest" title="Publish this ...
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• New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some legal analysis of recent court decisions involving stored email communications. Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email. One of the cases easily adopted ...
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• Events of Interest: ACS: Louis Brandeis and the Development of the Right to Privacy (Nov. 10)

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The American Constitution Society is having an event about Justice Louis Brandeis and the right to privacy. From the Web site:Louis Brandeis and the Development of the Right to PrivacyNearly 120 years ago, modern privacy law took root with the publication of Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s seminal article, The ...
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• Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder not ...
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• Senators Seek To Continue Government Spying On You Without Justification

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 476
  Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the ...
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• Article: Who Can Sue Over Government Surveillance?

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  Scott Michelman, staff attorney for the ACLU, has an article (pdf) in the current issue of UCLA Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The nature and scope of new government electronic surveillance programs in the aftermath of September 11 have presented acute constitutional questions about executive authority, the ...
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