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A Patent on Podcasting? EFF thinks not

FAC November 23, 2009

The Patent Office just granted  Volomedia exclusive rights to  “a method for providing episodic media,” creating a very real threat to the future of free podcasting.  You can help  EEF’s Patent-Busting Project crack the case. EFF’s DeepLinks Blog EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent – And We Need Your Help News Update by Rebecca Jeschke Patenting podcasting? You’ve got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such

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Whitehouse State Secrets privilege challenged by House bill

FAC November 23, 2009

Calling the Bush administration’s expansion of executive privilege “the greatest threat to liberty,”  Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s  (R-NY) update of the  State Secrets Act aims to prevent its use as a “magical incantation,” to stop discovery from taking place. The Atlantic’s Politics Channel Nov 18 2009, by Marc Ambinder Will The House Play Hardball With State Secrets? Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are preparing for a confrontation with the White House over the state secrets

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Medicare payment data to go onto public Web site

donal brown November 20, 2009

The Center for Medicare is planning to put up information about Medicare payments onto a Web site so that the public can track where the money is going. Some are concerned that this way of ferreting out fraud may also result in invasions of privacy. -DB NextGov November 19, 2009 By Aliya Sternstein The Obama administration plans to launch a Web site in December that the public can use to monitor Medicare payments, but some health

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Alaska still freezing former Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mails

donal brown November 19, 2009

Anchorage Daily News editor Paul Jenkins says that the refusal to release the Palin’s administration’s e-mails in a timely fashion is only the most recent attempt by the Alaska state government to withhold records from the public in defiance of the state’s public records law. -DB Anchorage Daily News Opinion November 14, 2009 By Paul Jenkins Alaska state government is bruising, if not breaking, the law by failing to release in a timely fashion Palin

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Federal judge says school’s anti-gang policy raises First Amendment issues

donal brown November 19, 2009

After a high school student’s free speech arguments were rejected by a federal district judge, a federal appeals judge said that he could bring First Amendment claims against his school for punishing him for allegedly asking a question to another student about a gang. The student denies asking the question. -DB First Amendment Center November 18, 2009 By David L. Hudson Jr. A federal judge has ruled that a student can pursue a First Amendment claim

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