Court: Feds can read e-mail, IP addresses without warrant:
Data mining at the FBI: digging for terrorists, insurance scammers, and identity thieves
House approves warrantless wiretapping
Senate Judiciary Committee approves Big Brother bills
MIT Project aims human buffer overflow at Secret Service
A few weeks back, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an important ruling about Internet privacy—or lack thereof. Reaction to the case has been mixed; some commentators see it as a logical extension of existing telecommunications policy, while others view it with the same sort of enthusiasm generally reserved for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Given the importance the case has already taken on, let’s take a look back at the decision and at some recent reaction to it.
The court’s ruling was essentially a simple one. The government is currently allowed to deploy “pen registers”—devices that can record ev