Christopher Leger

International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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If data mining like this doesn’t even work, what possible excuse could be used to infringe individual privacy rights? Thanks to Buzz Out Loud for the link to the article!

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This article by Ellen Nakashima in The Washington Post (8/12/08 pg D1) about the House Committee on Energy and Commerce inquiry into ISP customer monitoring is very revealing. The article links to the actual letters sent to the Committee by many ISPs detailing their customer tracking techniques. Please find your ISP and find out what [...]

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Is email privacy completely dead? Yes, if this Central District of California case is upheld. The judge made the finding that data is not in “transmission,” but I’m “storage” when it lands on a server, even for a millisecond, and therefor its interception can not violate the 1968 Wiretap Act. This case, if allowed to [...]

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