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...small group of international forensic code breakers is working to go beyond the obvious and familiar - the call logs and address books - and tap deeper into our phones, into a hidden gold mine of personal information. Their work is prompting kudos from crime busters while raising concern among civil libertarians...
...phones. Twenty years ago it would have taken a police agency months of shoe leather and paper hunting to assemble the kind of information that is available on a cell phone's internal memory and which can be extracted by a deep probe. Says Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union technology and liberty program: "They contain a great amount of information that essentially is a subjective picture of our habits, our friends, our interests and activities, and now some even have location tracking...
...added one more curious angle to the trial, which defense lawyers will clearly try to capitalize on in their arguments that this is an unreasonable prosecution. "It's unusual from the outset, because most cases of negligent homicide aren't prosecuted criminally, they're dealt with in the civil courts," says Dane Ciolino, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. "Another unusual aspect is the whole backdrop of the attorney general's office vigorously prosecuting the case on the heels of a stinging defeat in the Memorial hospital case. Some look at this as Charles Foti trying...
...violence began to ease in Dili, Alkatiri announced he would encourage a campaign of civil disobedience across the country. His statements - and his party's refusal to recognize the new government - have damaged Fretilin's already tarnished reputation. Former interior minister Rogerio Lobato is serving a seven-and-a-half-year jail term for arming a hit squad in the lead-up to last year's unrest. And just before the June election, the Fretilin-controled parliament voted to grant amnesties or reduce sentences for serious crimes relating to the violence of 2006, although the resolution was never signed into...
...SDSers do more than dwell on the war or civil rights issues: they are big on institutional change and blaming the same forces their '60s counterparts were fighting. But if the rhetoric slung by current SDSers is any indication, the group's goals are ambitious. SDSers seem keen to point out problems with "the system," and their collective agenda is to tackle a host of anti-imperialist issues including the war in Iraq and concerns about the global economy, immigration and racism. SDS isn't just focusing on the U.S. "The military industrial complex is huge, of course," says Marisa...