In a recent post to her blog, Jennifer Granick remembers the Chernobyl disaster.
“There are many legacies of Chernobyl. One that seems particularly worth remembering today is that a secretive government is a dangerous government.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Google sued as source of porn — Newsday.com
This is yet another example of how uninformed, or misinformed individuals attempt to shutdown or destroy anything they don’t understand. This guy is like the moron who orders the full cable package and then sues the cable company when his kids find the playboy channel.
Wired News: Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit
This is quite possibly one of the worst abuses of power I have seen from this administration. The case brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a privacy watchdog organization) accuses the company of collaborating with the federal government to illegally gather wholesale wiretaps of all telephone and data communications traversing some of the company’s network. This isn’t some wild accusation either. The EFF has documentation and firsthand accounts of the setup of the wiretapping equipment. The invokation of the state secrets privilege is the highest card the administration can play to stop the case. Their use of this common law precedent smacks of a facist regime bent on controlling information and directly undermines the judicial system. The only hope we have of learning the truth in this case is the slim chance the Judge will allow it to continue.