[News] Erosion of Human Rights Now Affecting E-mail

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District Judge Concludes E-mail Not Protected by Fourth Amendment (But See Correction)

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| The issue in the case is whether the
| government must notify a person when the
| government obtains a search warrant to
| access the contents of the person's e-mail
| account. Judge Mosman concludes that Rule
| 41 and 18 U.S.C. 2703(a) require the notice
| to be served on the ISP, not the account
| holder, as a statutory matter. He then
| rules that there is no constitutional
| requirement of notice to the account holder
| because the Fourth Amendment does not apply
| to the e-mails under the third-party
| doctrine.
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http://volokh.com/2009/10/28/district-judge-concludes-e-mail-not-prote...d-by-fo

FBI database error results in firing

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| An error in a national criminal record
| database cost Eschol Amelia Studnitz her
| job.
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http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/

1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list

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| Newly released FBI data offer evidence of
| the broad scope and complexity of the
| nation's terrorist watch list, documenting
| a daily flood of names nominated for
| inclusion to the controversial list.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009...102141.


Recent:

Kerala's new IT revolution: 'Email to All Employees'

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| In a unique venture in the country, all state government employees
| in Kerala have been initiated into the world wide web with the
| state government initiating its 'Email to All Employees' project.
|
| The new initiative was kicked off today by the Chief Minister of
| Kerala, V.S.Achuthanandan. The Kerala State IT Mission is the
| agency implementing the project.
|
| [...]
|
| The project has been developed on the Free and Open Source Software
| (FOSS) platform, configured and tested for hardware and software
| and finally rolled out by the Centre for the Development of Imaging
| Technology (C-DIT) led by P Gigy, team leader, Open Source
| Technology Team.
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http://news.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Keralas-new-IT-revolution-Email...-All-Em
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