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News During Wednesday's floor debate over a massive immigration bill, Real ID foes managed to preserve an amendment to prohibit the forthcoming identification card from being used for mandatory employment verification,... [28 Jun 2007]
Net neutrality back on the agenda in the US
News When the pair of senators introduced the same language as an amendment to a massive communications bill last year, it failed by an 11-11 vote that was mostly along party lines, with Democrats voting in favour. [10 Jan 2007]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News It's not a major break with First Amendment principles. Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, was the first politician to latch onto the Justice Department's plan, introducing a bill... [19 Sep 2006]
US court upholds anti-spam law
News Rather, Jaynes' attorneys appealed on the grounds that the law used to convict Jaynes was unconstitutionally vague, unconstitutional under the First Amendment and violated the Constitution's Dormant... [07 Sep 2006]
US cyber-spying must stop now, says judge
News The terrorist surveillance programme, Judge Taylor ruled, violates the First Amendment's right to freedom of expression and the Fourth Amendment right to privacy - that is, freedom from... [18 Aug 2006]
Global cyber-crime treaty gets Senate nod
News The US Department of Justice had said that such a provision - which would make it a crime to, say, email racist jokes or question conventional wisdom about the Holocaust - was inconsistent with the First... [07 Aug 2006]
Banks to cancel paedophile credit cards
News Police will now be able to pass on information on people cautioned or convicted of internet child pornography offences to the card issuers following an amendment to the Data Protection Act. Before the... [20 Jul 2006]
Verizon exec attacks net neutrality tug-of-war
News On 28 June, the Senate Commerce Committee narrowly rejected, by an 11-11 vote that fell mostly along party lines, an amendment to a sweeping communications bill that would have forced network operators to adhere to... [12 Jul 2006]
Websites told: Label smut or face prison
News David Greene, director of a free-speech advocacy group called The First Amendment Project, said: "Whether artistic works or political commentary or any type of images that may arguably come close to this... [15 Jun 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Librarians challenged it in federal court on First Amendment grounds, and the US Supreme Court upheld the law by a 6-3 vote in June 2003. But now the online social-networking phenomenon as a whole is... [11 May 2006]
Google denounced over search data request refusal
News The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging Copa, arguing that websites cannot realistically comply with it and that the law violates the right to freedom of speech mandated by the First Amendment. [27 Feb 2006]
Google fights US gov't request for search data
News ACLU said websites cannot realistically comply with Copa and that the law violates the right to freedom of speech mandated by the First Amendment. Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University,... [20 Jan 2006]
ID cards bill in crisis after major defeat in Lords
News The House of Lords voted 237 votes against 156 votes in favour of an amendment to the bill that would force ministers to reveal the full ID card costs to the National Audit Office for scrutiny, with MPs then voting again... [17 Jan 2006]
Yahoo!'s free speech suit dismissed by US court
News In a case that pits European restrictions on "hate speech" against the values of free expression enshrined by the US' First Amendment, a slender 6-5 majority of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals... [13 Jan 2006]
Spam appeal gets Supreme Court knock-back
News White Buffalo responded with a lawsuit, alleging the federal Can-Spam Act pre-empted the university's policy and that blocking its IP addresses violated the company's First Amendment right to free speech. [11 Jan 2006]
