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Tyler Clementi's Choice: Sex, Death and Video-Rape at Rutgers
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIf you try to draw a line between hate crimes and natural human behavior, you'd better have a good eraser. On Sept. 22, violinist and Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death after video of a (gay) sexual encounter was secretly filmed and posted on the Internet, allegedly by fellow students Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei. So far, Ravi and Wei have been charged with invasion of privacy, but some people are calling for hate-crime prosecution. My Woman Up colleague Mia Navarro quotes a New York Times commenter who says his students live in a technology bubble where they rarely encounter ...
UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- When it comes to data security issues, there is a blurry line between private sectors and government -- particularly if the BlackBerry is involved. The secretary-general of the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, is attempting to define that gray area in favor of his constituents, calling on BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion to allow government law enforcement agencies access to user information, according to The Associated Press. Toure believes that governments engaged in fighting terrorism have the right to request the customer ...
Two Weddings and an E-mail
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian's, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, Chelsea deserves an extraordinary wedding, and still others react with a yawn. For a few, the yawn morphs into a sneer. In the comment section of the Guardian, Harris was upbraided for his sycophancy: "You write informed pieces about Detroit and then end up writing this dreadful crap about the Clinton daughter. Were you hoping ...
Supreme Court Ponders Work Texts: Don't Expect Messages to Stay Private
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyLeave it to the newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, to get to the nub of Monday's oral argument at the Supreme Court about text messages and what reasonable expectations of privacy we ought to have when we send and receive them at work, on company time, or using company equipment. The case before the justices involved a California police officer who got in trouble over personal (and sometimes sexual) text messages he reportedly sent to his wife, from whom he was separated, as well as to another woman. The officer knew he was using a city device, and knew about the written policy which reminded ...
Google Street View Ignites UK Security Debate
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(March 22) -- A rarely seen image of the headquarters of the United Kingdom's Special Air Service has touched off a heated debate in Britain over the limits of Internet freedom. The image, which was posted on Google Street View, immediately drew criticism from a number of politicians. ''There needs to be a certain degree of restraint shown by people like Google," Paul Keetch, a member of Parliament, told the London Telegraph. ''I wouldn't want a terrorist to be inspired by these pictures, and it would be appalling if any help at all was given to our enemies." Google Street View faced a ...
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