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New federal online identity plan raises privacy and free speech concerns

FAC July 21, 2010

The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled  “National Strategy for Trusted Identities Cyberspace” (NSTIC). Commentary/ Electronic Frontier Foundation July 21, 2010 By  Lee Tien and Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the “National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions” and emphasized, reasonably, the private sector’s development of technologies

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UF First Amendment project files brief with U.S. Supreme Court in funeral protest case

FAC July 21, 2010

Press Release/ UF July 21, 2010 By University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project joined three other free speech groups to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court last week. They filed it as part of Snyder v. Phelps, a free speech case centering on military funeral protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. “The Snyder case pits the First Amendment

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George Carlin: Rethinking a free speech icon

FAC July 16, 2010

As a new court ruling overturns the rules on TV cussing, a look back at the comic who helped start the debate Salon.com July 16, 2010 By Matt Zoller Seitz Thirty-two years after the Supreme Court ruled on a free speech case sparked by the George Carlin routine “Filthy Words,” profanity and the First Amendment are in the news again. A ruling handed down this week by the New York-based Second Court of Appeals all

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Media groups side with Westboro protestors in court case

FAC July 16, 2010

Twenty-two media organizations have sided with a radical church against the father of a fallen Marine who is trying to sue it for picketing his son’s funeral. Stars and Stripes July 16, 2010 By Jeff Schogol ARLINGTON, Va. —The media organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday with the Supreme Court in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, which protests near servicemembers’ funerals because it believes that troops’ deaths and other national tragedies are divine revenge

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Guam Board of Allied Health Examiners bans recording devices from board meetings

FAC July 12, 2010

No recording devices or cell phones are allowed at the Government of Guam Board Meetings, according to a recent Guam Board Resolution. Senator Tina Muña Barnes accuses GBAHE of violating the First Amendment. -SMD Pacific News Center News July 12, 2010 By Guam News Guam – Senator Tina Muña Barnes has written a letter to Attorney General John Weisenberger seeking an opinion on the legality of a Guam Board of Allied Health Examiners [ GBAHE

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