The California courts have a long history of supporting and protecting freedom of the press. We are looking forward to the opportunity to ask the Court of Appeal to correct a ruling that endangers all journalists. |
The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press. |
The law is different from the final versions of the bill in the House and Senate. It was a bill addressing a lot of other things, and this part was slipped in. |
The main distinction is, with XCP, it was hiding itself so you wouldn't know that it was there. |
The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about. |
There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder. |
They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance. |
This is an extraordinarily broad discovery request. |
This is not a surprising result. It brings into question whether this is really the best use of the state's resources to constantly put up these clearly unconstitutional laws, only to have them challenged and thrown out. It does seem to be one in this series of law passes, gets challenged, gets struck down. Rinse, lather, repeat. |
Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas. |
We believe AT&T violated the law by providing the communications of its clients to the government without warrants, which is prohibited by federal law. |
We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony. |
We wanted the public to see this, |
We're asking that the system allow people to surf and to post and read things anonymously. Because the system requires people to sign on, it creates the opportunity for persistent tracking. |
We're pleased that Sony BMG responded quickly and responsibly when we drew their attention to this security problem. Consumers should take immediate steps to protect their computers. |