Wednesday, August 16, 2000

US - Law Professor on child porn charge (New York Post) A law professor at New York Law school has been accused of keeping a a stash of kiddie porn. Professor Edward Samuels - one of the most popular and technically savvy professors on New York Law's campus and a nationally known expert on copyright law - surrendered after school technicians stumbled onto the pictures while fixing his office computer. see also Net copyright: limiting liability of online service providers and The Illustrated Story of Copyright by Edward Samuels. [Quick Links Computercrime Cybercrime] 15:43 # G!

Court says FBI has been given too much wiretap power A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Federal Communication Commission's attempts to implement a 1994 electronic wiretap law have been too accommodating to law enforcement agencies and not sufficiently protective of the right of citizens to individual privacy or of the financial requirements of companies. The wiretap law (the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement, or CALEA) was passed by Congress because the FBI had insisted it was losing ground against criminals because wireless phone companies were not designing wiretapping capabilities into their networks. An executive of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which had opposed the FBI's request to Congress, says the appellate court's decision means that "government cannot get its hands on what it's not authorized to get just by promising it won't read what it's not supposed to read." [*The Washington Post*, 16 Aug 2000; NewsScan Daily, 16 August 2000; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32193-2000Aug15.html] ["NewsScan" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 03] 0:00 # G!