[Also thanks to Kris Singleton and Peter Trei who sent this along too. --Declan] ********** Date: 8 Aug 2001 20:15:19 -0000 From: "pulsar pulsar" <pulsarat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Judges stage "insurrection" against surveillance Declan, Thought the readers of politech might enjoy this. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/technology/08COUR.html "[W]ASHINGTON, Aug. 7 ? A group of federal employees who believed that the monitoring of their office computers was a major violation of their privacy recently staged an insurrection, disabling the software used to check on them and suggesting that the monitoring was illegal and unethical. This was not just a random bunch of bureaucrats but a group of federal judges who are still engaged in a dispute with the office in Washington that administers the judicial branch and that had installed the software to detect downloading of music, streaming video and pornography." The rest of the story is at the link. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/technology/08COUR.html ******** Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:44:41 -0700 From: Josh Duberman <pivotalinfoat_private> Organization: Pivotalinfo LLC To: declanat_private Subject: Judges Protest Computer Monitoring Hi - Thought you might be interested in this AP story by Gina Holland, at: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010808/12/judges-privacy Some excerpts: ....Chief Judge Mary Schroeder of the 9th Circuit said court employees had been disciplined for unauthorized computer use even though they were not fully aware of the court's policy on the matter. "We are concerned about the propriety and even the legality of monitoring Internet usage," she wrote in a June 29 memorandum obtained by The New York Times. Schroeder said the court administrators may have violated a federal communications privacy act... Take care - Josh ******** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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