Government Surveillance
Mike German moderated a panel on electronic surveillance and privacy rights. Among the issues addressed were increased surveillance of private citizens by the government as part of counterte…
688 viewsMike German moderated a panel on electronic surveillance and privacy rights. Among the issues addressed were increased surveillance of private citizens by the government as part of counterte…
688 viewsHouse Homeland Security Committee held a hearing titled “Turning Spy Satellites on the Homeland: the Privacy and Civil Liberties Implications of the National Applications Office.” Witnesses …
298 viewsLaw enforcement officials, legal experts and industry representatives testified about a computer program called ‘Carnivore’ that would allow the FBI to intercept and collect electronic commu…
406 viewsRepresentatives of various organizations responded to perceived threats against free expression rights on the Internet. They stressed the importance of protecting free speech on the Inte…
215 viewsThis session is part of a conference on Internet use by children. After a presentation on Internet filtering technologies, the panelists discussed the advisability of rating Internet materia…
71 viewsIn a moot court format, the participants debated the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, the first federal law to make it illegal to transmit certain kinds of sexually expli…
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