636372
submission
dprovine writes:
The New Jersey Supreme Court
has ruled that ISPs can't release customer information without a warrant.
The unanimous decision reads in part "We now hold that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy protected by Article I ... of the New Jersey Constitution, in the subscriber information they provide to Internet service providers — just as New Jersey citizens have a privacy interest in their bank records stored by banks and telephone billing records kept by phone companies."
385127
submission
dprovine writes:
According to a joint investigation by series of articles in The Washington Post and
60 Minutes, a forensic test used by the FBI for decades is known to be invalid. The National Academy of Science issued a report in
2004 that FBI investigators had given "problematic" testimony to juries. The FBI later
stopped using "bullet lead analysis", but sent a letter to law enforcement officials
saying that they still fully supported the science behind it. Hundreds of criminal
defendants — some already convicted in part on the testimony of FBI experts — were
not informed about the problems with the evidence used against them in court.
Does anyone at the Justice Department even care about what effect this will have on
how the public in general (and juries in particular) regards the trustworthiness of
FBI testimony?
291143
submission
dprovine writes:
Universal is now offering music through
Spiral Frog, free downloads
supported by advertising revenue. But according to
this story, the MP3s being offered won't work on iPods. What sense
does it make to shut out the largest hunk of the market? And how long
will it take until there's a utility to fix the MP3s so they will work
on your iPod?
