National Conference of State Legislatures:

Electronic surveillance is also examined in a brief
that is part of NCSL’s series, “States
Respond to Terrorism,” which surveys states’ efforts to protect democracy
from future terrorist attacks.

Electronic Surveillance involves the traditional laws on wiretapping–any
interception of a telephone transmission by accessing the telephone signal
itself–and eavesdropping–listening in on conversations without the consent
of the parties.

Following the tragedies of September 11, there is growing
support to give law enforcement agencies more power to tap into private
communications to thwart further acts of terrorism by monitoring private
electronic communications. State and federal policymakers face the challenge
of balancing security needs via electronic surveillance against the potential
erosion of individual privacy.

Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny:

We all knew it was a matter of “when” not “if”, but it’s surprising to see that it had to happen this way. Over on Google Blogscoped, I see that Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship: The page which used to say: Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results.

Now simply 404s. It’s gone. Well, except for the cached copy in Google itself.

Rather than using that page to explain how and why they’ve compromised their corporate philosophy in China, they’ve removed it entirely with no e

Read the comments for a rather troubling look at Google’s censorship.