Created by: Liz Woolery;xNLx;Contact: ewoolery@cyber.law.harvard.edu;xNLx;;xNLx;Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: chillingeffects.org
"The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. Chilling Effects welcomes submission of letters from individuals and from Internet service providers and hosts. These submissions enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and allow Internet users to see the source of content removals. Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate favorite stars, or criticize businesses, but concerned that not everyone feels the same way. Study to date suggests that cease and desist letters often silence Internet users, whether or not their claims have legal merit. The Chilling Effects project seeks to document that "chill" and inform C&D recipients of their legal rights in response."
Source: The New York Times
Source: The Washington Post
Source: The New York Times
Source: The Washington Post • "The documents, he said, show that the NSA gained access to massive amounts of e-mail and search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecommunications providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into its network at a facility in San Francisco and, according to Klein, many of the other telecom companies probably knew nothing about it."
Source: The New York Times • The story broke online the night before after editors at The Times learned that the Bush administration was considering a Pentagon Papers-style injunction. For more information on that piece of the story, see http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2008/03/the_education_of_a_911_reporter.single.html
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation • "In Hepting v. AT&T, EFF sued the telecommunications giant on behalf of its customers for violating privacy law by collaborating with the NSA in the massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans’ communications."
Source: Wired • "On August, 22, 2008, the FISA Court of Review issued an order upholding the ruling to compel Yahoo to cooperate with the order for data. The order was previously published only in redacted form (.pdf), with the petitioner’s name blocked out. But the New York Times has identified the party as Yahoo. According to the redacted order, it appears that Yahoo first received the warrantless request for data some time in 2007."
"Asked about an NSA program that tracks people's Internet activity, Bush said, 'I put that program in place to protect the country. One of the certainties was that civil liberties were guaranteed.'"
Source: The Washington Post
