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Who Owns Data About You?

Who Owns Data About You?

On Saturday, I blogged about a bill before the Utah Senate that would allow law enforcement to use administrative subpoenas to get data about you from your ISP when they suspected you of crimes against children. This would be done without a warrant and (...)

4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Phil Windley

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

It was supposed to have been a family treat as a group that included six adults and nine children made their way to a cinema in Paris to see a matinée performance of the latest Disney film "The Princess and the Frog". But it ended up with the (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

Rosarno and Mob within Italian culture

Rosarno and Mob within Italian culture

About 300 African migrant workers have been bussed out of Rosarno in Calabria, Italy, after a shooting which sparked two days of rioting that left at least 37 injured. The clashes with local residents and the police began after two Africans were wounded (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Massimo Famularo

More Great Publicity for the Miami Law Foreclosure Fellowships

You know you are having a good day when ’Above the Law’ (ATL) writes something positive about you - and that was my experience this afternoon with University of Miami Law School Puts Some Money into Public Service. In addition to not making me (...)

27 oct. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

Dear Mr. President: Thanks Again For Cap And Trade

Dear Mr. President: Thanks Again For Cap And Trade

To The Office Of The President Of The United States,  Dear Mr. Obama   We are the heads of a few of your largest constituents, including Dow, GE and DuPont. This letter represents our sentiments in wishing to express our gratitude for (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

Cap n trade these

Cap n trade these

I was really disappointed when the congress passed the recent Carbon Cap-N-Trade Bill. First was that it took me more than two days to read the 1200 plus pages and could only wonder how many carbon gases were released cutting down all them trees and (...)

1 Jul. 2009 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

French 3 strikes law struck down. Again.

French 3 strikes law struck down. Again.

There will be much gnashing of teeth LaLa Land, today. It’s staggering that governments are allowing themselves to be dictated to by a group of venal corporations run by a small band of CEOs who answer only to their shareholders, said p2pnet last (...)

11 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

For Obama Ideology Is More Important Than Law

For Obama Ideology Is More Important Than Law

In making Sonia Sotomayor his first nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday, Barack Hussein Obama appears to have found his ideal match for personal experience and cultural identity as the better part of judicial wisdom. The Founding Father’s would (...)

28 mai. 2009 | 6 comments | Liberally Conservative

The Worst of Both Worlds

A conservative mantra is that “the government is inefficient”. By looking at government services currently being provided in the U.S., it’s hard not to agree. However, there are two different questions you have to ask yourself: 1. (...)

23 Mar. 2009 | | Jacob Olsson

Loser Pays

Loser Pays

Marie Gryphon has a paper out from the Manhattan Institute advocating the adoption of a “loser pays” model for civil litigation : The United States struggles with a uniquely costly civil justice system. The direct costs of tort litigation, in (...)

4 déc. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

Stupid legislature tricks : Tennessee

Stupid legislature tricks : Tennessee

There’s a lot of stupidity in state legislatures, and the responsibility for that stupidity rests squarely with the people who voted for these morons. Take Tennessee. Please. Combating music piracy at Tennessee’s public university system (...)

21 nov. 2008 | | Effect Measure

Scientology members have to defend themselves against Anonymous harassment

Law enforcement’s movements against Anonymous trigger off a strange propaganda machine. News had it less than two weeks ago that Anonymous member Dmitryi Guzner agreed to charges of computer sabotage and attacks on the Church of Scientology websites (...)

3 Nov. 2008 | 2 comments | Louanne

Habeas Corpus Rights for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners

Habeas Corpus Rights for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners

In a recent case, the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the rights of habeas corpus which are guaranteed by the US Constitution. I expect the merits of this case to be debated vigorously and that historians will have (...)

22 Jul. 2008 | 3 comments | Bobill

Steyn Alone

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has dropped the complaint against author Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine. The complaint was baloney from the start anyway. For those who have been under a rock for the last few months, a human-rights complaint (...)

14 Apr. 2008 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

Bullying and blogging

Bullying and blogging

When blogs first became popular, it did not take very long for bloggers to start using their sites for nefarious purposes, such as spreading lies about others. It may have started with some school kids who figured that using a blog for bullying mates off (...)

7 Mar. 2008 | 4 comments | Werner Patels

Free-thinking spirits

Free-thinking spirits

Life has a tendency to throw a curve ball at the oddest moments. While such luminaries of the free-speech movement as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are defending their right to express their opinions freely, a member of the very group that they both have (...)

31 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

No hyphenation, please

Kirpan

Back in school, the most unpopular kid would be the one who constantly ran to the teacher to tattle on others: "Teacher, Peter took my eraser!" While some students’ behaviour or actions, of course, are clearly out of bounds - kids will (...)

21 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

Credit Rationing

Utah payday lenders began refusing Monday to make loans to members of the military rather than give them much lower rates mandated by a new federal law. That new law, which took effect Monday, caps the annual interest on payday, car title or tax refund (...)

8 oct. 2007 | 1 comment | Marginal Revolution

Time to Allow Beer, Wine at Corner Stores

Time to Allow Beer, Wine at Corner Stores

In what decade are we living here in Ontario ? Government-owned stores are still the only place you can buy beer and wine in Ontario. John Tory has vowed to look at selling beer and wine in corner stores. Good for him. I have no problem with the LCBO. But (...)

24 sep. 2007 | | Gregory D. Morrow

Crime and Its Victims

Crime and Its Victims

Crime is up. No, crime is down. Open any newspaper, or read any blog, and you will see an equal number of people supporting one or the other position. It is true, though, that crime is down in absolute numbers, but this is little consolation to those who (...)

13 Jun. 2007 | | Werner Patels

Florida May Require and Ban Stem Cell Funding

Florida May Require and Ban Stem Cell Funding

Yet another state getting into stem cells ! Two mutually exclusive constitutional amendments, both of which might pass... The Florida Supreme Court ruled that competing proposals to change the constitution to deal with the issue can go before the (...)

6 jui. 2007 | | Bioethics.net

Petroleum law not about fair distribution of revenues

Petroleum law not about fair distribution of revenues

The Iraqi petroleum bill has run into heavy opposition in parliament from Kurds and other political forces. The Bush administration had made passing it by June 15 one of 4 major "benchmarks" for the progress of the al-Maliki government. Michael (...)

8 mai. 2007 | | Juan Cole

Chasing the Chocolate Kings

Chasing the Chocolate Kings

Writer and lecturer Danny Bernardi argues Birmingham City Council’s prosecution of Cadbury is a pointless waste of time. If you’ve ever eaten a bar of Cadbury’s chocolate a cursory glance at the label will reveal it was born in the (...)

30 Apr. 2007 | 2 comments | Danny Bernardi

How Do We Enforce A Gun Ban For The Mentally Ill ?

How Do We Enforce A Gun Ban For The Mentally Ill ?

With the Virginia Tech massacre in the headlines endlessly busybody politicians in D.C. feel like they need to do something to make it look like they’re earning their paychecks, so the consensus among both Democrats and Republicans seems to be a ban (...)

23 avr. 2007 | | Rob Port

Gun control at work

Gun control at work

Just last year : A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly. House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia, Police (...)

18 avr. 2007 | | W.C. Varones

iPod maker broke labour laws

Chinese iPod maker Foxconn, apparently named by the local Shenzhen government as a "role model," has admitted employees work about 80 extra hours each month, "which is against the law in China," says China CSR. "Role model" praise notwithstanding, (...)

27 jui. 2006 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

EMI attacks French p2p plan

French moves to legalise online music file-sharing are an "aberration," says EMI boss Eric Nicoli, urging the country to re-think its policies.. When Big Four record label cartel executives speak, they expect governments to listen, and hard. (...)

23 jan. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Note to Self : Get Real

Regular readers at Spot-on.com know that I think that wireless Internet access may well prove to be a touchstone for the pending rewrite of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Think about it. Universal access is so neat that cities and towns think (...)

25 nov. 2005 | | Spot-on

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