This law gives broad new powers to the Government! Read these articles about the USA Patriot Act II.

Ashcroft Out of Control

Patriot Act Sequel Worse Than Original

EFF Analysis Of The Provisions Of The USA PATRIOT Act
That Relate To Online Activities (October 31, 2001)
Last updated October 27, 2003

WHY WE MAY NEVER REGAIN THE LIBERTIES THAT WE'VE LOST
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Article Description: The lights of a magnificent, recovering city glittered from the 80th floor of the Empire State Building on Wednesday evening. The multiple ironies were not lost on the gathering of civil-liberties and public-interest activists. The Empire State Building is now the tallest structure in the city, still half-stunned from the attacks that brought down the two taller buildings 18 months ago. As a new war raged in Iraq, the people in the room were acutely aware of the only slightly older war that...

Published on April 6, 2003, Page 1F, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

GOP wants to keep anti-terror powers - Broad spying tools would become permanent

Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act Center Publishes Secret Draft of 'Patriot II' Legislation

Cyber citizen spies on a Pentagon spook

Documents Show Ashcroft is Bypassing Courts With New Spy Powers, ACLU Says

EFF Analysis of "Patriot II," Provisions of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 that Impact the Internet and Surveillance

Repeal the USA Patriot Act

This is the first in a six-part series of articles on the USA Patriot Act: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism."

Internet Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't

The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals

Police spy files stir an uproar in Denver Article was moved to Seattle Times archive - Subscription required to access.

Marketer Challenges Anti-Spam Crusader Article Preview / Must Pay to read

eBay provides YOUR PERSONAL INFO to Law Enforcement without warrant or subpoena, also tells police, "you might want to get a subpoena" to look in your PayPal Account

Article above is from LawMeme, which is under construction last time I checked, a collaboration between the ISP, the Yale Law and Technology Society and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology delivers the latest law and technology news, commentary and feedback via the Web.

Sources of Civil Liberties Information and Censorship Info

Google Blogoscoped - How Much Did Google Agree to Censor?

How much does Google self-censor (or “filter”, as they call it) in China? We don’t know exactly, as Google doesn’t tell us so far. What we do know is that the Chinese gov’t handed Google some sort of list of sites which should be censored. We also know that Google says they want to comply with this list so they’ve got at least some presence in China, which they say will ultimately help the Chinese. From the results in Google.cn we can further assume this is a list of domains (or sub-domains, or sub-folders on domains). A particular blacklisted domain can contain a dozen, or millions of pages, which are then censored altogether – independent of whether every single page includes “blacklisted ideas.”
 

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

LawMeme at Yale Law School

Center for Democracy and Technology

Declan McCullagh's Politech

Free Online Newspapers that do NOT require users to "signup" or "join" their site to access articles:

sfgate.com

Seattle Times

www.mirror.co.uk