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March 18, 2012 | 
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Sunshine Week: Forecast Looks Cloudy for PATRIOT Act Transparency (via EFF)
As we noted in an earlier post, EFF received the first batch of records from the DOJ in our FOIA lawsuit related to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act yesterday. The government released approximately 300 pages of records to EFF, but (not surprisingly) none of those records shed any light on the information…
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Kumar says, "As an academic, we're always trained to be able to jump through hoops to raise funding for our labs, so now we get our robots to do that." Read the rest of this entry »
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FCC Studying Government Wireless Service Interruptions (via redOrbit)
In response to an August 2011 shutdown of wireless service by public transportation officials in San Francisco, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to review whether or not they need to establish rules to govern when law enforcement and other public service agencies can…
The cover of the October 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker:
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