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'''''Reminder''''' ''November 6<sup>th</sup> 2012''
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''December 20<sup>th</sup>''
*General Elections - See your state's Secretary of State for voting details and [https://register2.rockthevote.com/ get registered].
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*Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment ([http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/ Article])
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''November 26<sup>th</sup>''
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*Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police ([http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126,0,686331.story Article])
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''November 15<sup>th</sup>''
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*Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive ([https://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/ Article])
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''November 6<sup>th</sup>''
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*President Obama is reelected to office
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''October 26<sup>th</sup>''
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*The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court ([http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/ Article])
 
''October 11<sup>th</sup>''
 
''October 11<sup>th</sup>''
 
*Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury ([http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Article])
 
*Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury ([http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/ Article])

Latest revision as of 14:56, 20 December 2012

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Edit this section December 20th

  • Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment (Article)

November 26th

  • Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police (Article)

November 15th

  • Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive (Article)

November 6th

  • President Obama is reelected to office

October 26th

  • The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court (Article)

October 11th

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

October 9th

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

October 3rd

  • 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 16th

  • US Court upholds patent law allowing "isolated" genes to be patented. (Article)

August 15th

  • 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 19th

  • 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 2nd Failed Cloture

June 8th

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