Keep everything in
limbo...
Judge
Won’t Purge Megaupload User Data, At Least Not Yet
A federal judge on Friday declined to
pull the plug on 25 million gigabytes of Megaupload data seized when
the government shuttered the file-sharing service in January.
… U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady
— according to CNET’s
Greg Sandoval who attended the Virginia hearing — for the
moment declined to go along with that plan, instead ordering
the various parties connected to the case to broker a deal. [Why
would the MPAA agree to anything, short of a full “confession?”
Bob]
Well, as long as I have assurances from
such a staunch defender of privacy...
Facebook
defends CISPA while pledging not to share more data
The latest Internet oversight bill
coming up before Congress -- the
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) -- is
only just starting
to get much attention. And it certainly hasn't sparked a
backlash the way SOPA
did.
Unlike SOPA, CISPA has the support of a
range
of tech companies, including Facebook, IBM, Intel, Verizon, and
AT&T. As my colleague Violet Blue explained in her piece "Say
'hello' to CISPA, it will remind you of SOPA":
What an amazing coincidence...
Interesting:
Law Firm Leading The Antitrust Charge Against Apple Shares A Seattle
Address With Amazon
What possible strategy was being
followed?
"Following on the heels of the
FCC and U.S. mobile carriers finally
announcing plans to create a national database for stolen phones,
a group of iPhone users filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T
on Tuesday claiming that it
has aided and abetted cell phone thieves by refusing to brick
stolen cell phones. AT&T has '[made] millions
of dollars in improper profits, by forcing legitimate customers,
such as these Plaintiffs, to buy new cell phones, and buy new cell
phone plans, while the criminals who stole the phone are able to
simply walk into AT&T stories and 're-activate' the devices,
using different, cheap, readily-available 'SIM' cards,' states their
complaint. AT&T, of course, says the suit is 'meritless.'"
Should you always ask for the records
that prove the government was monitoring you? Then you can claim
that “This prosecution is actually persecution for my political
beliefs” OR “The government claims they have not been
monitoring me – if they are lying about that, what else are they
lying about?” We're at the point where anyone could find
technology the government has admitted using that could be connected
to your case: (e.g. Speeding? GPS )
April 12, 2012
Protecting Classified
Information and the Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Classified
Information Procedures Act
Protecting
Classified Information and the Rights of Criminal Defendants: The
Classified Information Procedures Act, Edward C. Liu, Legislative
Attorney; Todd Garvey, Legislative Attorney - April 2, 2012
- "The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) provides criminal procedures that permit a trial judge to rule on the relevance or admissibility of classified information in a secure setting. It requires a defendant to notify the prosecution and the court of any classified information that the defendant may seek to discover or disclose during trial. During the discovery phase, CIPA authorizes courts to issue protective orders limiting disclosure to members of the defense team that have obtained adequate security clearances, and to permit the government to use unclassified redactions or summaries of classified information that the defendant would normally be entitled to receive. If classified information is to be introduced at trial, the court may allow substitutes of classified information to be used, so long as they provide the defendant with substantially the same ability to present a defense and do not otherwise violate his constitutional rights. Among the rights that may be implicated by the application of CIPA in a criminal prosecution are the defendant’s right to have a public trial, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, and to have the assistance of counsel. CIPA may also be implicated by the obligation of the prosecution to provide the defendant, under Brady v. Maryland, with exculpatory information in its possession, and to provide the defendant with government witnesses’ prior written statements pursuant to the Jencks Act."
Something I should make my
students use?
Friday, April 13, 2012
Last month I learned that Qwiki
was launching a creation tool that allows users to create their
own multimedia Qwikis. A Qwiki is a short narrated
story that includes images, videos, and text. This
morning I received my invitation to try out the new Qwiki
Creator, these are my initial impressions.
Creating the basics of a Qwiki is very
easy. There are three steps to the process; uploading content (or
linking to hosted content like a Flickr image), recording narration,
and captioning content. One of the things that I learned in my first
attempt at creating a Qwiki is that the order in which you upload
content is the order in which it will appear in your Qwiki. Perhaps
I overlooked it, but I couldn't find a way to reorder my uploads.
Voice recordings are limited to 20 seconds. You can also record with
your webcam and have a video of yourself appear in your Qwiki.
Captioning your content is very straight forward. After uploading
content and making your recordings you're presented with a grid of
all of your content to caption. Just fill in the blanks in the
caption fields. The caption screen is where you can insert links.
The Qwiki
Creator browser bookmarklet, titled Qwik It!, is a handy little
product that will help some students clip and organize content for
their Qwiki projects. With Qwik It! installed students can clip
sections of webpages and send them directly to their Qwiki Creator
accounts. From there they can use the clipped content to build a
Qwiki.
Applications
for Education
I was hoping for a bit more from the
Qwiki Creator,
but despite some of its editing limitations it could be a good tool
for students to use to create short multimedia stories. Students
could create personal narratives using Qwiki Creator. Or you might
have students create short introductory narratives about topics that
they're studying in your classes.
Harry Potter grows up?
J.K.
Rowling Reveals Her New Book — For Adults
As widely reported yesterday, J.K.
Rowling and her publisher Little, Brown have announced her new book.
And, as you may have heard, it’s not for kids.
The “blackly comic, thought-provoking
and constantly surprising” book, her publisher says — her first
aimed at adults — is called The Casual Vacancy. It
will be released worldwide (at least in English) in hardcover, ebook,
unabridged audio download and CD on Thursday, September 27, 2012.
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