Wired News: Suits Seek End to Domestic Spying The New York suit, filed on behalf of the center and individuals, names Bush, the head of the National Security Agency and the heads of the other major security agencies, challenging the NSA’s surveillance of persons within the United States without judicial approval or statutory authorization. … [...]

Boing Boing: DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes. It seems apparent that Google objected to the request not for privacy reasons, but on grounds that the request was too broad and burdensome. … Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend [...]

Curmudgeony Librarian News Network: Congress Votes to Extend Patriot Act Congress reauthorized several elements of the Patriot Act, which were due to expire in 2006. Fourteen of the sixteen sections with “sunset clauses” were made permanent, and the other two were extended for ten years.

Wired News: House Votes to Limit Patriot Act …lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips. A little progress but there’s still a lot left.

<blockquote USATODAY.com – Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act Our government has always possessed the power to obtain library records, but that power has been subject to safeguards. The Patriot Act eliminated those safeguards and made it impossible for people to ask a judge to rule whether the government [...]

Am I the only one who finds the hardest part of customer outreach the actual writing? Either you have no time or writer’s block. If I’m not, and you want to tell your community about Firefox, feel free to use the text below. Bend, break and mutilate as you see fit. The final version of [...]

Attorney General John Ashcroft resigned today, claiming credit for an extraordinary era of justice in his resignation letter. Boing Boing Where?!

Yahoo! News – Court strikes down Patriot Act provision Boing Boing: ACLU and EFF strike down part of PATRIOT Act librarian.net : gag orders unconstitutional says federal court. duh, says jessamyn.

…Viet Dinh (G-town law prof, former AA General for Bush, author of the USA Patriot Act, and poster boy for conservative causes…). Viet made a comment at one point that I think you would like — he said what he had learned from the response to the Patriot Act was ‘Don’t mess with librarians.’” librarian.net [...]

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