[Sigifp-l] Information Policy Digest 11/21

[TAMaxwell at aol.com]

FREE SPEECH

The Media - Is MTV Getting Too Gross?
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/07/ew.hot.mtv/index.html>
Years of "Beavis and Butt-head" and Madonna have taught us to 
expect little more than innovative ways to shed clothing and act stupid

Flap Over FBI-Bugs-Library-Computer Claim in Hartford Courant.
<
http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/columnists/hc-hunter1110.artnov10,0,6354989.

column>
The Courant's credibility was hurt with bogus library bugging story.

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Filter Mandate.
<http://www.cdt.org/speech/>
The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear the case brought by the 
American Library Association and Multnomah County Public Libraries 
challenging the Children's Internet Protection Act.

PRIVACY

Random Stops Begin in Michigan.
<http://www.freep.com/news/metro/checks12_20021112.htm>
Federal agents will begin randomly stopping traffic, looking for illegal 
immigrants, terrorists and drug or weapon smugglers.

Computer Break-Ins: Your Right to Know.
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2002/tc20021111_2402.htm>
California law now demands that the public be informed when government or 
corporate databases are breached.

E-GOVERNMENT

E-Government Act Passes Congress.
<http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow>
The House approved a bill that is intended to fundamentally change the way 
the federal government uses information technology to interact with 
citizens.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

Bill Moyers on the Freedom of Information Act .
<http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers4.html>

New Federal Policy May Restrict Research Access.
<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/11/11/3dcf6edeb7a0b>
U.S. federal policy traditionally recognizes "classified" and 'unclassified' 
information, but a new, vaguely defined category may be emerging. This label 
would designate some data 'sensitive but unclassified,' possibly introducing 
new exceptions to the Freedom of Information Act.

Homeland Security Bill Compromises Federal FOI Act.
<http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=299>
The Society for Professional Journalists responds to the Homeland Security 
bill.

SECURITY

Total Information Awareness (TIA) System.
<http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm>

The goal of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program is to 

revolutionize the ability of the United States to detect, classify and 

identify foreign terrorists…



Pentagon Wants a -Big Brother- Supercomputer.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40942-2002Nov11.html>
A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global 
computer-surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access 
to personal information in government and commercial databases around the 
world.

Grounded.
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/11/15/no_fly/index_np.html>
A spokesman for the new Transportation Security Administration has 
acknowledged that the government has a list of about 1,000 people who are 
deemed -threats to aviation- and not allowed on airplanes under any 
circumstances.

Bush Aides Consider Domestic Spy Agency.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61549-2002Nov15.html>
President Bush's top national security advisers have begun discussing the 
creation of a new, domestic intelligence agency that would take over 
responsibility for counterterrorism spying and analysis from the FBI.

Perspective: Say Hello to Big Brother.
<http://news.com.com/2010-1069-966164.html>
Like it or not, the proposed Department of Homeland Security firmly 
establishes Washington's central role in computer and network security.

House Considers Jailing Hackers for Life.
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965750.html>
A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security 
would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison.

INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION POLICY

Powers To Ban Online Racists
<http://www.indexonline.org/news/20021111_europe.shtml>
The Council of Europe has added a protocol to its landmark convention on 
cybercrime that requires future signatories to criminalise the use of the 
internet to spread racist or xenophobic content.

Index on Censorship.
<http://www.indexonline.org/>

Censorship latest from around the World.



Not Your Father’s Fatwa - Taslima Nasrin Speaks (Still).

<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0246/davis.php>
-Some of my uncles were in the march against me and demanded that I be 
hanged,- said Taslima Nasrin last week, as she described street protests 
during the 1990s in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against her writing.

Italy: Ex-PM Guilty of Journalist's Murder.
<http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20021118_italy.shtml>
Former Italian Christian Democrat prime minister Giulio Andreotti was 
sentenced to 24 years imprisonment on November 17 for conspiring with Mafia 
assassins to murder journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979.

Vietnamese Internet Activist Receives Severe Sentence.
<http://www.dfn.org/news/vietnam/quang.htm>
The three-hour trial took place in the People's Court of Hanoi and 
underscores the lack of tolerance for political dissent within the communist 
state of Vietnam.

Surgical Tags Plan for Sex Offenders.
<http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,841827,00.html>
Britain is considering a controversial scheme to surgically implant 
electronic tags into convicted paedophiles amid fears that the extent of the 
abuse of children has been massively underestimated.

GENERAL

The Filter.
No. 5.4 , 11.13.02
from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/>
CONTENTS:
[1] In the News: CIPA, States v. MS, Halloween II, Xbox
[2] Dispatches: Global Filtering, Google Zoning
[3] Berkman News: Harvard's Digital ID, Eldred Qs
[4] Bookmarks: Vaidhyanathan & Zittrain on Copywrongs
[5] Quotable: Richard Clarke on the DMCA, S&M Barbie
[6] Talk Back



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