The ACLU Foundation of Northern California reached a settlement with a Lake County school district that contains a series of steps the district will undertake to protect students from anti-gay harassment and discrimination. The agreement is on behalf of a student who was persistently subjected to verbal taunting and physical abuse based on his sexual orientation.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) set off a minor firestorm in the blogosphere over its new ID policy, which went into effect this past Saturday.
Apart from the ceremonial naming of post offices, it has become an increasingly rare thing in Washington for Republicans and Democrats to band together on an issue. However, the effort by telecom lobbyists to steamroll retroactive immunity for AT&T, Verizon and Comcast is being met with stiff resistance by a broad coalition of activist groups.
The ACLU of Northern California has written extensively about the privacy and free speech implications of video surveillance.
A video surveillance firm is now trying to make its technology a bit more privacy friendly by developing technology to blur most people's faces.
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has been thrust into the media spotlight after his own private collection of photographs and videos was accidentally made available on the Internet.
Kozinski told a reporter from the LA Times that he thought the material on his Web site, which included photographs and videos of a sexual nature, couldn't be seen by the public.
What do your cell phone and the current trial of twenty-six Americans, many of them CIA agents, in an Italian court for the 2003 kidnapping of Muslim cleric Abu Omar have to do with each other?
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