Another USA PATRIOT Act lawsuit has resulted in additional sections being ruled to violate the 4th ammendment. This is interesting as it also has some implications on the FISA act and may represent the start of an increased level of judicial action on cases where the “National Security” flag is run up the pole.
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More USA PATRIOT Act issues
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Interesting Network Developments
Thursday, September 6th, 2007So in the Internet keeping itself interesting on a daily basis, there are three important things that have come out in the past day. First is the FCC’s actions as noted in the Federal Register which include responses from only 45 service providers for how they will provide information to “…conduct a vulnerability assessment of the Nation’s critical communications and information systems infrastructure and shall evaluate the technical feasibility of creating a back-up emergency communications system that complements existing communications resources and takes into account next generation and advanced communications technologies.”
Additionally there is interesting news regarding so called “Net Neutrality” today. The DOJ has just one objection to folks doing this, but as the article headline says, “Feds OK fee for priority Web traffic”. Luckily, I use ssh and other non-http transports for the majority of my activities so this will not impact me, right?
There’s also ISP news in a Patriot Act lawsuit from the ACLU. It seems that NSL’s may no longer apply to service providers, and will need judicial oversight, either from the FISA court or other courts.