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Daily Archives: November 28, 2006

Coalition Urges Court to Give E-mail Full Constitutional Protection

November 27, 2006 statement: “Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims… Continue Reading

Comptroller General of the U.S. : Recommended Oversight Targets for the 110th Congress

Comptroller General of the United States, November 17, 2006. Subject: Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress (44 pages, PDF). The report addresses several dozen issues divided into three areas: near-term oversight, policies and programs that are in need of fundamental reform, and governance issues that will ensure an economical, efficient, effective, ethical and… Continue Reading