Sunday, December 11, 2011

postheadericon Perhaps SOPA Should Be Called The Stop Online PRIVACY Act

of piracy to privacy

critics of the law of online piracy and to stop China's approach to firewall to the fight against Internet piracy law defeated misled by the foreseeable damage inflicted on the cyber- safety, innovation and especially the speech, free. Over one hundred teachers, including the right of eminent constitutional scholars, known as Lawrence Tribe of Harvard University, criticized the blockade of the provisions of the soup (and its counterpart Senate PROTECT-IP) as a form of "censorship preview" of speech prohibited by the First Amendment. However, it is also a less obvious risk SOUP privacy of Internet users may have received much less attention.

"We tend to deal with issues of freedom of expression on the internet as a matter of censorship," the former White House counsel, Andrew McLaughlin technology recently explained

The Wall Street Journal

"but the real threat is vigilance." censorship and surveillance are natural partners: the discourse of surveillance chills often only the most effective blocking course content and prohibitions lead to surveillance to identify the prohibited content. Therefore, it is probably soup.

According to the notice and takedown approach to copyright infringement incorporated into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Web platforms, should not actively police the content uploaded by users: they n 'have to meet with demands to remove the specific files identified by the identification of rights holders. On SOUP, however, a site can be labeled as "dedicated to the theft of goods in the United States" if, in the strange wording of the law, the owner "is taking or has taken deliberate steps to avoid confirming a high probability "the violation. simply Sites

accused

Risk sufficient care for the deprivation of income or ad networks pay suppliers.

These disastrous consequences to provide a powerful incentive for legitimate sites to implement some type of automated user control is loaded with content, not to be accused of "deliberately avoiding" the conscience of the offense. Sites that can not expect to change their conditions of long-term block of legalese that users rarely read closely to allow such explorations. As many analysts have pointed out, the friction costs and expenses involved in the implementation of these innovations to load the filters and legitimate "fair use" of copyrighted material. But if you look like you might be as unpredictable impact on the level of legal protection of privacy of communications users are entitled to.

content much damage is posted on the public internet for all to see. However, the offense can just as easily occur in more limited private forums. A pirate file can also be sent as an attachment, shared only with a circle of friends in a social network, or downloaded to a storage site in the wall behind a cloud password. A complete analysis should include them and can affect how content is treated in two federal statutes and the Constitution. In summary, SOUP encourages private cloud providers to change their practices so they can reduce legal barriers to public private communications, even for searches that have nothing to do with copyright.

Enter the Fourth Amendment



courts have only recently begun to admit sadly that some forms of cloud data is stored entitled to the protections of the Fourth Amendment. But the analysis focuses on Fourth Amendment if a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" of information from a government agent tries to achieve. If the files or messages are automatically scanned for violating content providers cloud scary, the courts may be more likely to find that user expectations of privacy and some protection of the Fourth Amendment that accompanies it, has resigned. Even the least protection to privacy afforded by 'Electronic Communications Privacy Act depends on the suppliers have limited access to user files and messages, which means more scans that are not obviously a necessary part of providing a service cloud in particular, could provide a basis for questioning the applicable law.


be optimistic, however, and assume that the law will be interpreted to preserve the confidentiality of the content downloaded by the user, although it has been analyzed this way. This protection is even less likely to spread to all records generated by the explorations of a provider. The extent to which these records indicate that users were reported for suspicious files loading, or to send links to suspicious sites that could reveal information
'user content, but can be treated as ordinary business documents available to the government through a subpoena or other process less simple, rather than purchase full search of the Fourth Amendment.


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