Defending liberties in high-tech world

Jul 08 2006

SAN FRANCISCO - In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the Internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers’ e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation’s laws were being applied to new technologies became even more fearful and decided to intervene.

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13718446/

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Posted by Kurt.Seifried on Saturday, July 8th, 2006, at 12:12 am, and filed under Quick News.

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