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Monday, January 30, 2012
Big Brother is tracking you?
Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision:
From www.wired.com:
The Supreme Court’s blockbuster GPS decision Monday afforded American’s new constitutional privacy protections against warrantless government tracking.
But the justices stopped short of clearly spelling out how wide those rights actually are — or when exactly a warrant would be needed.
The case tested whether the police may secretly attach a GPS device to a vehicle and track its every move without a probable-cause warrant. The judges made it clear that the physical act of putting a tracker on the vehicle constituted a search and that police would be wise to get a proper search warrant, even though the justices didn’t outright say they had to.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Latest from Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Since we've been following Colbert's satirical (but very real) Super Pac, I thought I'd update you with their latest email. He and Stewart are having a mock fight over control of the Super Pac. They're actually collecting donations (please don't). I can't figure out who would:
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Read Widely
Politically Neutral News Sites:
Politically Moderate News Sites:
- The New York Times
- Moderate liberal (Democrat)
- Strongly liberal tendencies on Opinion pages
- The Washington Post
- Moderate Conservative (Republican)
- Strongly conservative tendencies on Opinion pages
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