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...year after imposing stricter restrictions on students’ international study, the College decided to reinstate some nations still under State Department travel warnings. The old policy relied too heavily on general blanket warnings and ignored regional variations in safety in different countries. For example, students could not obtain grants (or course credit) for studying in relatively safe countries such as Israel, Lebanon, and Kenya...
...Since February, Congress has been investigating such so-called data brokers for the ways in which they gather their information. Some of them use people inside the phone company who are willing to divulge the data. But more commonly, these businesses obtain phone records through an illegal practice known as "pretexting," in which someone calls up the phone company and impersonates a subscriber to con the service representative into releasing copies of the records...
...shady business of pretexting to get personal information has been thriving for years. But online sellers are relatively new. Typically, these brokers claim they can obtain anyone?s phone records for around $100. There have been few lawsuits, mostly because the majority of victims never learn that their phone records were accessed...
...Civil liberties lawyers argue that regardless of the technical legality, it?s an ethically questionable practice for police to use fraudulently obtained information in their investigations. "As a policy matter there are set procedures [police] should use instead of sidestepping them for convenience sake,? says Siy from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, phone records are customers? private property and phone companies can disclose them only with the consent of the subscriber or with a subpoena from law enforcement. The act applies only to telecom companies, however, saying nothing about third parties selling records...
...table." The official adds that by agreeing to talk to Iran, the U.S. would "absolve the international community of the responsibility to tackle this problem." Opponents of engagement further argue that opening direct talks would confer legitimacy on Iran's leaders--who, aside from their suspected desire to obtain nuclear weapons, deny Israel's right to exist, support terrorist groups and lack support among their own people. Says Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank: "The very act of sitting down with them recognizes them...