Re: [privacy] privacy Digest, Vol 3, Issue 12

[Dan Renner <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

Just goes to prove that the age of the 1st Amendment is long gone.

Hopefully that bit about the Phoenix rising is somewhat related...

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Sincerely,

Dan Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com
818.352.8700



privacy-request () whitestar linuxbox org wrote:

> Message: 5
>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:50:26 GMT
> From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
> Subject: [privacy] Privacy &  Anonymity in the Age of Full Disclosure
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Message-ID: <20060608.065121.2325.128642 () webmail23 lax untd com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Elizabeth Daley:
>
> [snip]
>
> Two new recent bills introduced to the [New Jersey] state assembly require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to 
> disclose user information in any claim of defamation. If these bills were to pass, individuals who are accused of 
> online bad-talk in New Jersey would face instant disclosure of their identities to their accusers.
>
> While it may seem that having one's identity revealed may not be that serious, Paul Levy, an attorney who deals with 
> cases of online defamation for the Center for the Public Citizen Litigation has seen just how serious it can be. Levy 
> is currently representing one person who was identified as having criticized another person in his community. After 
> his identity was fully revealed, he was forced to move out of his hometown.
>
> However being identified doesn't just mean you suffer humiliation or threats, being identified also means a formal 
> lawsuit may be brought against you, costing time and money.
>
> To make matters worse, the other New Jersey bill (A2623) would require ISPs to remove any "inappropriate" content when 
> notified by a user of material that is defamatory or offensive. This means that ISPs, who will not have time, 
> resources or legal expertise to determine if something is or is not defamatory, will erase anything that may be 
> considered offensive or illegal.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/37269/
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>  

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