The controversial passenger-profiling system has officially been cancelled, but critics remain appropriately skeptical about what its "death" means. Below, a brief sampling of perspectives:
Edward Hasbrouck @ The Practical Nomad: "Hours after announcing that the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling and monitoring system would be ...

Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a new report to Congress singing its praises.
As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report, entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act...

The fearless folks @ FreeCulture.org have just announced "Barbie-in-a-Blender Day," a unique campaign to support fair use and free expression.
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Mattel isn't a big fan of free speech -- at least not when it applies to their products. So when Utah artist Tom Forsythe took...

Three good pieces on the state of email privacy post-U.S. v. Councilman and the need for an update to "wiretap" laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA):
StarTribune.com: "Until Congress updates the laws it wrote when email was still in infancy, users ought to pause...

The RIAA has been touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement.
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As long as Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) insists on invoking "the children" to push misguided copyright legislation, Ernest Miller will insist on invoking "the pornographers" as its primary beneficiaries.

Elizabeth Rader of Stanford's Center for Internet & Society offers a rebuttal to the news reports that over-simplify the decision in U.S. v. Councilman:

The news spin seems to be that the court found it completely legal for an ISP owner to read his customers' emails...