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Are the feds torturing the Patriot Act for location data?

It's hard to imagine a Senator making a blunter statement than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) made in the heat of the Patriot Act reauthorization fight last month: "When the American people find out...

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Monday, June 6th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Senator: open source software needed for medical records

Senator John D. Rockefeller has proposed legislation to encourage development of interoperable systems for universal medical records. The bill, known as the Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009, calls for the...

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Monday, April 27th, 2009 Net News 1 Comment

Court flunks high schoolers’ appeal on plagiarism database

Over student objections, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has found that Web-based plagiarism detection service TurnItIn.com does not violate the students' copyrights in their work, even though it sometimes stores their complete...

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Net News No Comments

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