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Civil Rights Group Slams Cyber Patrol Tactics
News The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticised Internet filtering software maker Microsystems Software and its parent company Mattel on Friday, accusing them of attempting to limit free speech on the Internet.
[March 27, 2000, 9:41]
Civil Liberties Group Opposes Clinton's Spy Plans
News With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and drug runners, rather than big-time terrorists, proposed new wiretap powers in the US, will only give the Clinton administration...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
Crypto Compromise A Lawyers' Delight
News These regulations are preserving the ability of the government to get in the way of the export and the use of strong cryptography," said ACLU Associate Director Barry Steinhardt. It's a step forward," acknowledged ACLU's Steinhardt, "But the...
[January 14, 2000, 11:35]
COPA Backers Slam Ruling, Urge Appeal
News Enough is Enough spokeswoman Shyla Welch said COPA "gives the Web exactly the same First Amendment protection as print" materials, and concluded, "The judge merely bought into the ACLU's disgraceful fear-mongering.
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
Net-porn Filtering Hit With Lawsuits
News Both the ACLU and ALA have waged successful battles against federal attempts to crack down on Internet content. Those people will be forced to view filtered material whether they want to or not, even if they are adults, the ALA and ACLU argue.
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
US Congress Ignites Net Filter Fight
News In the past, the ACLU has successfully blocked free-speech threatening amendments that had been attached to appropriations bills, including the Communications Decency Act. It's a violation by censoring what adults can view in a library," said Ann...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
Digital Copyright Law On Trial
News The ACLU wants a court to declare that Edelman's research is not barred by the DMCA, by N2H2's shrinkwrap license, trade secret laws or other copyright laws. We're confident that the court will deny the defendants' motion to dismiss since they...
[October 31, 2002, 8:30]
Exclusive: Intel To Electronically ID Chips
News We would rather that Intel have the patch installed as the default," said the ACLU's Steinhardt, who stated that such a policy would let consumers choose whether they wanted to e-commerce-enhance their PC.
[January 21, 1999, 9:30]
RIAA Draws Civil Liberties Opposition
News The recording industry's subpoenas, filed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), violated due process and constitutional rights shielding Internet users' anonymity, the ACLU claims. In its motion, filed Friday, the ACLU joined other...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
Napster Case Makes Strange Bedfellows
News One of the most interesting arguments comes from the ACLU, which says Patel's ruling could thwart free speech on the Internet. For example, ACLU attorney Ann Brick said the ruling could prevent actions like sharing book excerpts among members of an...
[September 14, 2000, 15:09]
Civil Liberties Group Takes On DMCA
News Edelman had testified as an expert witness in a case the ACLU brought against a federal law that compelled public libraries to install filters. N2H2, the ACLU will ask for an injunction that bars Seattle-based N2H2 from suing its client.
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
Google Stands Up To Government Porn Probe
News AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein confirmed that the company received a subpoena from the Justice Department but said the information from the ACLU was not accurate. The ACLU says Web sites cannot realistically comply with COPA and that the law...
[January 20, 2006, 8:40]
Analysis: US Lawmakers In Web-regulating Frenzy
News Still, he acknowledges his law which is under scrutiny from the ACLU, may follow the path of a similar law in New York. Kentucky, Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee are considering laws that would require many public agencies to install blocking...
[March 31, 1998, 7:00]
Librarians Issue File-sharing Support
News The ACLU said on Thursday that the brief argues that peer-to-peer networks are speech-promoting technologies that have many non-infringing uses. If the MPAA and the RIAA succeed in shutting down peer-to-peer networks or making them more centralised...
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU's Washington office, said she hoped the new Congress would investigate the National Security Agency's domestic spying programme. The ACLU is pinning some of its hopes on Representative John Conyers, the...
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
US Kicks Out Online Decency Act
News The ACLU coalition challenged the CDA on the same day it was signed into law, maintaining it violated the First Amendment and erroneously compared the Internet to a broadcast medium rather than likening it to newspapers or magazines, which enjoy...
[June 27, 1997, 8:53]
Privacy Activists Blast Echelon
News The advert placed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is designed to raise public awareness of Echelon, as well as the FBI Internet wiretap system called Carnivore, with the aim of forcing the US government to protect individuals' rights...
[April 12, 2001, 14:44]
Civil Rights Group Decries Face-recognition Tools
News Face-recognition technology designed to help catch known criminals proved ineffective during a two-month period, according to a report released Thursday by the America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU said it also found that the police...
[January 4, 2002, 9:23]
Freedom Of Speech V The Will To Protect Children
News According to Ann Beeson, lead counsel for ACLU the law was never going to be acceptable under the First Amendment. An injunction filed by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a group of online publishers claimed the bill infringed freedom...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
Far-reaching Censorship Law Challenged
News Two nonprofit groups, the Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed suit against Pennsylvania in September. CDT and ACLU lawyers have asked US District Judge Jan DuBois to declare the law...
[January 7, 2004, 10:05]
