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Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill
An anonymous reader writes "DailyKos is reporting that a group of senators and representatives including Hillary Clinton, John Kerrry, and Tubbs Jones, have proposed an 'open-source' voting bill. This bill (The Count Every Vote Act of 2005) corrects many of the problems in the last election. Notably, it requires paper receipts, and that the source and object code of all electronic voting machines to be open and readable by the public. " Commentary on the bill available at the Miami Herald. -
EFF Asks How Big Brother Is Watching The Internet
MacDork writes "The EFF filed a FOIA request yesterday with the FBI and other offices of the US DOJ regarding expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act. The EFF is making the request in an attempt to find out whether or not Section 216 is being used to monitor web browsing without a warrant. The DOJ has already stated they can collect email and IP addresses, but has not been forthcoming on the subject of URL addresses. It seems the EFF is seeking any documentation to confirm such activity is taking place. One can only hope the automated FOIA search doesn't produce any false negatives or cost the EFF $372,999." -
Library Censorware Unconstitutional
b!X writes "A Federal court in Virginia has struck down Loudoun County's use of censorware in public libraries as unconstitutional. See a press release here and watch the ACLU for the text of the decision. "Michael Welles, who was actually an expert witness in the case, also sent us the final draft of his deposition. He was asked to eval the effacy of filtering software.
So, whaddya think? Is this good or bad? I think that we need to strike some of this down, but I can also understand the library's position. -Hemos