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Submission + - Open Rights Group report of voting tech problems (openrightsgroup.org)

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now3djp

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @04:00PM

now3djp writes: "The Open Rights Group have just released their report on the problems with voting technology used. Full report. Great to see this issue receiving more coverage."

Submission + - Microsoft Excel Nearly Elects Wrong Government

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ntk

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @04:53AM

ntk writes: "Britain's Open Rights Group sent technically knowledgeable members to act as electoral observers in the UK's first e-voting trials, with disturbing results. Their report mentions, among other foul-ups, that officials forgetting to scroll in Excel almost led to the wrong party winning control of the Scottish parliament. More in their full report here."

Submission + - Court Says Email Private (enquirer.com)

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carpdeus

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:40AM

carpdeus writes: "The unanimous opinion of a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott's finding last July that prosecutors violated the Constitution when they persuaded a federal magistrate to give them access to Steve Warshak's e-mail accounts at Nuvox Communications and Yahoo!

The argument was that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure applies to electronic communications. The government had used the Stored Communications Act of 1986 to obtain a sealed order and never let Warshak know that his privacy had been violated.

At the moment, this ruling only applies to emails in the southern half of Ohio covered by the Sixth Circuit."

Submission + - EFF Privacy Advocate Photographed by Google's Stre (lawbean.com)

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Spamicles

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:42AM

Spamicles writes: "From the you've got to see it to believe it department, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney has been photographed by Google's Street View. The funniest part is, this isn't the first time this has happened!"

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