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From: owner-politech@politechbot.com
[mailto:owner-politech@politechbot.com]On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2001 7:54 AM
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: Peeved judges protest electronic monitoring of their PCs
[Also thanks to Kris Singleton and Peter Trei who sent this along too.
--Declan]
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Date: 8 Aug 2001 20:15:19 -0000
From: "pulsar pulsar" <pulsar@disinfo.net>
To: declan@well.com
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
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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:44:41 -0700
From: Josh Duberman <pivotalinfo@usa.net>
Organization: Pivotalinfo LLC
To: declan@well.com
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
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