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Reminder November 6^th 2012

General Elections - See your state's Secretary of State for voting details and get registered.

October 11^th

Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury (Article)

October 9^th

The Supreme Court declined to hear a telecom privacy invasion lawsuit due to a retroactive protection law passed by Congress in 2008 (Article)

October 3^rd

The Federal Appeals Court stayed the injunction on the NDAA's indefinite detention clause. (Article)
A Senate panel found anti-terror data-sharing centers are useless (Article)

August 16^th

August 15^th

The US Circuit Court of Appeals in United States vs. Skinner declared that tracking via cell phone GPS falls under "stored communications" and doesn't require a warrant. (Article)

July 19^th

S.3414 Introduced (govtrack Text)
- This is a new less destructive form of CISPA, but it still requires work to become an acceptable bill. More about it by the EFF.
- August 2^nd Failed Cloture

June 8^th

A US Judge shot down a case between Apple and Google calling the US patent system "dysfunctional" (Article)

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