Recent articles: SF blog rules; DHS privacy; Canada; Patriot Act [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-5657915.html
San Francisco may not regulate bloggers after all

http://news.com.com/Homeland+Security+panel/2100-7348_3-5657746.html
WASHINGTON--A federal privacy board on Wednesday appointed a prominent 
champion of government data-mining as its first chairman.
The Department of Homeland Security's privacy board chose as its 
chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer best known in technology 
circles for his defense of the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness 
project.

http://news.com.com/U.S.+blogger+thwarts/2100-1028_3-5656087.html
U.S. blogger thwarts Canadian gag order

http://news.com.com/Feds+uncloak+Patriot+Act/2100-1030_3-5655112.html
More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary 
powers granted to federal police nearly four years ago as part of the 
war on terror.
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