Hipaa. Can you talk about that . There is this unpleasant reality that the internet is a global medium. Google implemented this on hundreds of specific sites where they say all but 5 of the search traffic occurs in the e. U. If you go to france or germany or whatever, you get the unfiltered results. Suppose they decide they do not like that. Do they say you can show those results to people outside the e. U. Proxy servers exist elsewhere. Suddenly you have this regime to stop people from being embarrassed. That seems excessive. This really strikes me as the law equivalent of an older the court kind of did not know how to edit. They said we know this could be exploited but we will figure it out in practice. Can i respond to the wikipedia stuff . Favorite cases when i was a general counsel for wikipedia was this. Two convicted german murderers who had served their time for having killed a german eventuallystar were they served their time and got out on good behavior. They were convicted i
And Virtual Library that brings to commuters in a hurry. Well, begin in israel, where fired the finance and Justice Ministers. He says he will dissolve parliament. We are expecting to see making some kind of statement within the next hour or so. We h bring you that if we can. This has. Rumored for some time, it is now a fact he has disagreements with the coalition, what is he trying to get out of this . Is a covenant that can agree on things. He has effectively made the sackings after the event, pause it was monday night that he confronted for the first time in a number of weeks, he wasnt even speaking to the finance minister, they broke down all together in terms of any real dialog. He has a meeting with him on monday night a list of five dend mas. A range of issues from a bill, which was really intended a jewish state bill, which has been heavily criticized, because it effectively according to a lot of people makes palestinian citizens second class, that bill was controversial he wan
Are using them online. The courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. So part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. So students and journalists can find them. Citizens can find them. We get calls from congress. They have questions, too. How are you funded and where did you come from . We really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid1980s who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. I think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. And to save their families i think they created the National Security archive. Not juast a repository but as an institutional memory and a followup because we not only inherited boxes and boxes of documents from these pioneering j
Some news this morning, u. S. District judge yesterday temporary halted the president immigration executive order and his how the ap is reporting. On monday district judge in texas issued a temporary injunction giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to probably stop the order to that will go to the president orders that could spare more than 4 million 4 Million People who were in the u. S. Illegally from deportation to the statement the white house said mondays ruling wrongly prevents the presence of lawful commonsense policies from taking effect at the Justice Department will appeal a federal judges ruling according to the white house. Some reaction from capitol hill. John boehner released a statement that reads in part hopefully Senate Democrats who claim to oppose this executive overreach will not let the senate began debate on the bill to fund the Homeland Security department. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has another take on the judges decision s
And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . Guest the size and parts of different markets. They have 30 of cable between them and 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband, that is just too big. I had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal but this gives you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so to be public because they feared retrobution. Host did comcast come to you and try to influence your opinion guest they did not. I have been against