One of the ongoing issues is if it is in fact right for Internet
websites and communication businesses to give private information to the NSA. The so called secret program these businesses
use is called Prism.
“The government justifies Prism
under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Section 1881a of the act gave the
president broad authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance. If
the attorney general and the director of national intelligence certify that the
purpose of the monitoring is to collect foreign intelligence information about
any nonAmerican individual or entity not known to be in the United States, the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can require companies to provide access
to Americans’ international communications. The court does not approve the
target or the facilities to be monitored, nor does it assess whether the
government is doing enough to minimize the intrusion, correct for collection
mistakes and protect privacy. Once the court issues a surveillance order, the
government can issue top-secret directives to Internet companies like Google
and Facebook to turn over calls, e-mails, video and voice chats, photos, voiceover
IP calls (like Skype) and social networking information.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?_r=0
3D
printing is the new way to create life like objects easily. There is a debate
ongoing about if it will be legal to print 3D Guns.
“A May 21 bulletin distributed to numerous
state and federal law enforcement agencies and obtained by FoxNews.com states
that the guns, which can be made by downloading blueprints into cutting edge
computers that mold three-dimensional items from melted plastic, "poses
public safety risks" and are likely beyond the current reach of
regulators. The guns threaten to render 3D gun control efforts useless if their
manufacture becomes more widespread.”
Is it legal
for judges and lawyers to friend each other before and after trials?
“Two opinions have raise issues about judges' friending
lawyers before their court on Facebook. In the
first situation, a North Carolina judge was reprimanded for friending a lawyer
on Facebook and accessing the website of an opposing lawyer. The judge and one of the lawyers in the case exchanged
messages about the case, which the judge revealed to the other lawyer the next
day. The judge also referenced a poem he found on the second
lawyer's clients website during a hearing. The
judge recused himself at the request of the second lawyer. The judge was reprimanded for the ex parte communications and
for independent fact gathering. “
http://www.tlie.org/newsletter/articles/view/56
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