Despite vocal opposition from the ACLU, EFF, and at least 37 other human rights and privacy organizations (see their letter to the U.S. Nevada Senator Harry Reid has postponed the Protect I.P.vote, while House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar...
Google has been joined by the ACLU, foreign civil rights groups, eBay, the Consumer Electronics Association, and hundreds of legal professionals. You'd think Google wouldn't want to antagonize another branch of the federal government.
Opponents such as the ACLU, the EFF, and the American Library Association believe such a legislation would erode citizens basic rights. Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...
In a statement, the ACLU said, "We remain very concerned that this proposal is a clear recipe for abuse and will make it that much easier for the government to gain access to our most personal information.
One rights group, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California is already expressing concern over the new feature's implications: "Facebook Places: Check This Out Before You Check In" they warned in a post.
As a publisher, if you put the "Like" button on your site, "you're potentially selling out your users' privacy even if they never press that button," said Nicole Ozer of the ACLU of Northern California.
The Sacramento Public Library Authority Board upheld the action of the city's libraries filtering access to the internet on library computers, despite challenges from the ACLU, the Sacramento News and review reported.
The lawsuit which resulted in this ruling was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and for those with a legal interest or extreme insomnia will find the entire report here on the ACLU site. Yesterday controversial elements of the Patriot...
The final document is a protective order in the ACLU v. Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No, Yahoo After the lead government attorney conferred with Google, Google has chosen not to comply with subpoena.
Postscript 13: AOL appears to have been asked and complied, at least according to the ACLU. The ACLU challenged the law the US government seeks to revive, the An ACLU attorney told News.com that Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL all chose to comply.
ACLU calls for end to Net filtering in libraries. The project, called Google Compute, lets select Google Toolbar users allow their unused computing time to be contributed to the nonprofit Folding@home project at Stanford University.
ACLU Assails Internet Anti-Smut Law. You can usually force a search engine to include a stop word in your query by using the inclusion operator (the plus sign), but must use the operator for each stop word in your query.
ACLU Assails Internet Anti-Smut Law. Bankruptcy court has approved InfoSpace's $10 million bid for certain Excite@Home assets, including domain names, trademarks and user traffic associated with the Excite.com Web site.
