1 day ago by reuters

Tue Feb 7, 2012 8:27pm EST * Richard Holwell leaves bench to form new law firm * Handed down record prison term for insider-trading By Grant McCool NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Presiding over the high-profile insider-trading trial and sentencing of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was "perso ...

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24 days ago by Jeffrey Brown

A recent Eleventh Circuit case presents a myriad of issues. In United States v. Cray, the defendant appealed his convictions of receipt and possession of child pornography. 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 839 (11th Cir. 2012). He had subscribed to a website providing child pornography for $79.99 per month, and ...

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27 days ago by Bill Singer

Why pay retail? At this stage in the proceedings, it’s all merely allegations. Prosecutors have filed a criminal Complaint and the named defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. That’s how it goes. So – keeping in mind that it’s sim ...

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37 days ago by comsecllc

searchsecurity.techtarget.com Every organization considering a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone system deployment hears the same dire warnings: “Routing voice calls over a data network exposes calls to eavesdropping.” While it’s certainly true that any telephone call carries a certain d ...

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37 days ago by J.D. LeaSure, President / CEO ComSec LLc

searchsecurity.techtarget.com Every organization considering a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone system deployment hears the same dire warnings: “Routing voice calls over a data network exposes calls to eavesdropping.” While it’s certainly true that any telephone call carries a certain d ...

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39 days ago by Jeffrey Brown

In a lawsuit alleging "widespread warrantless eavesdropping" in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Stored Communications Act, the Ninth Circuit has reversed and remanded the lower court dismissal on standing grounds. Jewel v. NS ...

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40 days ago by Jason Ditz

In a pair of major rulings related to the massive warrantless wiretapping scandal of the past several years, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the “retroactive immunity” from lawsuit granted by the US Congress to telecoms that unlawfully cooperated with the wiretaps is constitutiona ...

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41 days ago by V2A

In mixed decisions with important implications for government spying on US citizens, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that telecommunications companies have the constitutional right to legal immunity for helping the government eavesdrop on e-mail and telephone communi ...

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41 days ago by WIRED

A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a closely watched lawsuit accusing the federal government of working with the nation’s largest telecommunication companies to illegally funnel Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without court warrants. While the 9th US ...

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41 days ago by comsecllc

sfgate.com The nation’s telecommunications companies can’t be sued for cooperating with the Bush administration’s secret surveillance program, but their customers can sue the government for allegedly intercepting their phone calls and e-mails without a warrant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday ...

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