"APBnews " - Cops Can Be Sued for Coaxing Confessions. "Officers who intentionally violate the rights protected by Miranda must expect to have to defend themselves in civil actions," said the decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

The Detroit News - Cops disregard Miranda rights - 11/10/99.

Some California police departments are circumventing the "You have the right to remain silent" Miranda warning by training their officers to question suspects even after they ask for an attorney, civil rights lawyers say.

The lawyers say a training videotape shown to departments statewide represents the latest test of the Miranda ruling, which was handed down in 1966 by a liberal Supreme Court and has been under attack ever since.

EE Times - Update: IETF votes down wiretap proposal.

Slashdot | Your Rights Online | New York Times - free registration required School Officials Defend Web Site Filtering. As more teachers came forward Wednesday with new accounts of students doing research being blocked from Internet access, New York City school officials Wednesday defended their use of a computer program that filters out sites with references to weapons and breasts, even if the sites were about medieval weapons and breast cancer.

"Tech Web" (CMP) - IETF Votes Down Wiretap Proposal. "Out of a room of about 1,000 to 1,200 people, about 25 [IETF members] supported wiretap protocols, and 800 or so opposed," said David Banisar, an attorney and privacy advocate. "It was a pretty good trouncing."

Network World Fusion - IETF meeting: Wiretap debate full of static, 11/11/99.

However, at a formal discussion held last night, a larger-than-expected number of IETF members made arguments in favor of creating protocols that support wiretapping. And in a vote taken at the end of the debate, more members abstained from voting on the issue than opposed it.

Epinions.com - Cloak and dagger? Or just encrypted chat?.

Political News from Wired News - IETF Says 'No Way' to Net Taps.

The Internet's standards-setting body has decisively rejected the idea of Net wiretaps.

Members attending the Internet Engineering Task Force's meeting here decided overwhemlingly late Wednesday not to provide wiretap capabilities for governments that want to conduct surveillance online.

Thank you IETF

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New York Times - free registration required Do You Know Who's Watching? Attitudes Vary on Privacy Issues. Jerry Kang, an acting professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles said, "There is widespread ignorance or misinformation about how personal data is used in the database marketing industry and in the information collection process in cyberspace. Privacy doesn't mean information quarantine. It just means individual choice. People need to know up front what will happen to their personal data before they engage in these market transactions."

MS-NBC - Students: Web filters block research. A filter installed on New York City's Board of Education computer system makes it virtually impossible for students in city schools to do sophisticated research projects on the Internet, The New York Times reported.

ABCNEWS.com - Supreme Court Hears Driver's License Case.

Justices Hear Arguments on Federal Power, Personal Privacy

At issue is whether Congress had the authority to pass the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994, which prohibited states, with some exceptions, from disclosing personal information submitted to state motor vehicle departments.

EE Times - Vote scheduled for Net wiretap protocols.

"The U.S. Congress, when enacting CALEA, specifically rejected the inclusion of computer networks in the statutory mandate," opponents told the task force in their letter.

Law enforcement officials countered that Internet service providers (ISPs) still have a statutory requirement to comply with court-ordered wiretap requests under pre-CALEA federal laws.