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Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry
Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice. Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-sexual crimes have been placed in sex-offender databases. Fitz represents a convict who was charged with false imprisonment when he was 18 for briefly detaining a 17-year-old girl during a soured drug deal.
Continue reading »Death and social media: what happens to your life online?
Losing a friend or family member is painful enough, but imagine the extra, unnecessary jabs when that friend’s social networking profile continues to pop up in searches. Or say your friend was particularly wise or witty when posting online, but when you went back to reference something later, the entire record was gone without a trace. Today, many of us keep our profiles, blog posts, and musings entirely online, leaving family, friends, and service providers stuck trying to figure out what to do with a deceased user’s digital bits.
Continue reading »Rulings Leave U.S. Student Speech Rights Unresolved
Do American students have First Amendment rights beyond the schoolyard gates? The answer is yes and no, according to two conflicting federal appellate decisions Thursday testing student speech in the online world. “Ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to have to decide if there ever is a time students have full-fledged First Amendment rights,” said Frank LoMonte, executive director of Virginia-Based Student Press Law Center, and one of the attorneys in the cases the 3rd U.S.
Continue reading »Feds Charge Three with Comcast.net Hijacking
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Defiant, in an undated photo from his MySpace profile last year. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black, Jr, 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,” known for hijacking Comcast’s domain name in May of last year — a prank that took down the cable giant’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours, and allegedly cost the company over $128,000.
Continue reading »Shakira: File Sharing is Good!
Shakira opposes Lilly Ann and the likes who are supporting Government's plans to crack down on the illegal file sharing Shakira hits back at Lilly Ann's rant against illegal downloading A new showbiz figure jumps into the file sharing debate . After publishing several posts last month related to the dispute between different artists regarding how illegal file sharing and those who practice it should be dealt with, dispute which really took off when British pop singer Lily Allen posted on her blog her rant against the artists who defend file sharing, today we report about Latin ‘shake-it-all’ artist Shakira joining the hot topic. The Columbian superstar Shakira reacted against Lily Allen’s claims that file sharing is ‘disastrous’ saying that, in fact, the phenomenon brings her closer to fans.
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