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Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions

The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States.
In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said the [...]

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Once Again, DMCA Protects Online Video Sites

In dismissing an infringement lawsuit, a Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects California web-video host Veoh.
It is the second time that Veoh, a YouTube-style service, has won protection from the courts under the DMCA, which immunizes web hosts from liability if they remove infringing content at the owners [...]

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Antitrust Concerns Swirl Around Sale of Diebold Voting Machines

Sen. Charles Schumer asked the Justice Department’s antitrust division on Monday to investigate the recent sale of Diebold’s voting machines division to a competitor, saying the deal raises anti-competitiveness concerns and has “adverse implications on how our country votes.”
The letter comes just days after another voting machine company filed an anti-trust lawsuit in federal court [...]

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CDT Urges Privacy Requirements Be Included in Google Books Settlement

CDT today filed a “friend of the court” brief in the Southern District of New York requesting that key privacy requirements be included in the Court’s approval of the class-action settlement that would dramatically expand Google Book Search. CDT previously released a report in July analyzing the privacy implications of this settlement and is [...]

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CDT Releases Privacy Recommendations Report for Google Book Service

CDT today released a report analyzing the privacy risks associated with the proposed expansion of Google Book Search. The report urges Google to commit to a strong privacy regime for the new service in advance of the settlement fairness hearing this fall. The tentative settlement between Google and publishers, the result of a [...]

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Theater of the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings

Every three years, as mandated by Congress in Sec. 1201(a)(1)(C) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights conduct a rulemaking on exemptions from the DMCA’s prohibition on circumvention of access controls protecting copyrighted works. This year’s revival opened in Stanford, then moved here to Washington DC for [...]

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