[LINK] Discovery, the bright new sword of the digital judiciary!

[Kim Holburn]

The electronic age and US law, somewhat chilling.  Not a great article  
but some interesting links.

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001090.html

> Horizon immediately asked to see practically everything the  
> teenagers had said on their Facebook and MySpace profiles, in  
> instant-messaging threads, text messages, e-mails, blog posts and  
> whatever else the girls might have done online.
>
> The Beyes’ lawyer, David Mazie at Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman,  
> objected on the grounds that Horizon’s demands violated the girls’  
> privacy. He lost. So hard disks and web pages are being scoured in  
> order for the case to proceed. Gathering and then sifting through  
> all the electronic information that a few teenage girls have  
> generated is excessive and daunting, says Mr Mazie.


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Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
                           -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961