...but if you read it, you become a
target.
EXCLUSIVE:
Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on
Americans
A confidential Justice Department memo
concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American
citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders”
of al-Qaida or “an associated force” -- even if there is no
intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack
the U.S.
The 16-page
memo, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, provides new
details about the legal reasoning behind one of the Obama
administration’s most secretive and controversial polices: its
dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaida
suspects, including those aimed at American citizens, such as the
September 2011 strike in Yemen that killed alleged al-Qaida
operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Both were U.S. citizens
who had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with
any crimes.
… But the confidential Justice
Department “white paper” introduces a more expansive definition
of self-defense or imminent attack than described by Brennan or
Holder in their public speeches. It refers, for example, to what it
calls a “broader concept of imminence” than actual intelligence
about any ongoing plot against the U.S. homeland.
Just in time for a thoughtful
discussion of Mobil App Privacy... (Works with your browser too)
… When thinking of privacy, the
first thing that comes to mind is usually Facebook, with its ever
changing privacy
settings, but have you ever considered what information your
mobile apps can collect about you?
Although
iOS’s privacy settings are much improved in iOS 6, there’s
still no clear way to find out exactly what each app knows about you,
what information it can collect, and how these things can affect you.
A new service by BitDefender
called Clueful tries to
bring some order into this area, with detailed analyses of what each
iOS app knows, uses and does when it comes to your private data.
… Clueful is a simple Web app that
gives you access to BitDefender’s analysis of many popular iOS
apps.
Are
we ready to make billions with our “Free is Good!” business plan?
How big a game changer is this? (How likely is it to get past the
lobbyists?)
"Internet access is an
essential need on par with education access, but at what point do
regulators recognize that? When will government officials
acknowledge that widespread, guaranteed access is essential to
fostering growth in the country? Somewhat surprisingly, that time is
now, as the FCC is now calling for nationwide
free wi-fi networks to be opened up to the public. The FCC
proposes buying back spectrum from TV stations that would allow for
what the Washington
Post is dubbing 'super wi-fi,' as the commission wants to cover
the country with wide-ranging, highly-penetrative networks.
Essentially, you can imagine the proposal as covering a majority of
the country with open-access data networks, similar to cell networks
now, that your car, tablet, or even phone could connect to. That
means no one is ever disconnected, and some folks – especially
light users and the poor – could likely ditch regular Internet and
cell plans altogether."
Keeping
up on the tools of war
Palm-Sized
Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War’s Latest Spy Drone
British troops in Afghanistan are
flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a
micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
This is the Black Hornet. Its Norwegian
manufacturer, Prox
Dynamics, bills it as the world’s smallest military-grade spy
drone, with a weight of 16 grams and a length of 4 inches. Propelled
by two helicopter blades, the Black Hornet carries little more than a
steerable camera that records still and video imagery. (That is:
It’s unarmed.) Now British soldiers have brought it to
Afghanistan, as it fits in the palms of their hands. It’s supposed
to be a drone for an Army of One.
Something
for my Criminal Justice majors...
February 04, 2013
United
States Courts - Access to Court Opinions Expands
"A pilot project giving the public
free, text-searchable, online-access to court
opinions now is available to all federal appellate,
district and bankruptcy courts. The Judicial
Conference, the policy-making body of the Federal court system,
approved national implementation of the project with the Government
Printing Office, Federal Digital System (FDsys), which provides free
access to publications from all three branches of federal government
via the Internet. The pilot project pulls opinions nightly from
courts’ Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems and
sends them to the GPO, where they are processed and posted on the
FDsys website. The
functionality to transfer opinions to FDsys is included in the latest
release of CM/ECF which is now available to all courts. Twenty-nine
courts participated in the original pilot, and now, all courts may
opt to participate in the program. Access to judicial opinions
through FDsys allows the Judiciary to make its work more easily
available to the public. Collections are divided into appellate,
district or bankruptcy court opinions and are text-searchable across
opinions and across courts. FDsys also permits embedded animation
and audio. Presently, more than 600,000 opinions dating back to 2004
are available. Opinions from the pilot are already one of the most
heavily used collections on FDsys, with millions of retrievals each
month."
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