Category: Rights, Justice, & Judgement

Guilt by association is defined as the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty. It’s also at the heart of U.S. Patent No. 8,306,922, which was awarded to Google on Tuesday for Detecting Content on a Social Network Using Links

Source: Google Patents Guilt-By-Association – Slashdot

Glenn Greenwald: Where do the abuses of the last decade from Bush and Obama rank when compared to prior assaults in the name of war?

This, to me, has always been the most uniquely pernicious aspect of the War on Terror civil liberties assaults of the last decade: they will not end when the “war” does because the “war” will have no end. Each new power is embedded permanently into the political framework, incrementally transforming the political culture and the species of government itself.

Source: Who is the worst civil liberties president in US history? | Glenn Greenwald | Opinion | The Guardian

Yesterday, EFF, on behalf of its client Kyle Goodwin, filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload’s service and denied third parties like Mr. Goodwin access to their property.

The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data by storing it on a cloud computing service.

The government also filed a brief of its own, calling for a long, drawn-out process that would require third parties—often individuals or small companies—to travel to courts far away and engage in multiple hearings, just to get their own property back.

Source: Megaupload and the Government’s Attack on Cloud Computing | Electronic Frontier Foundation