The American Library Association are running a conference on the USA PATRIOT Act in December. "SAFEGUARDING OUR PATRONS' PRIVACY: What Every Librarian Needs
to Know About the USA PATRIOT Act & Related Anti-Terrorism Measures." They're intending to cover the Homeland Security bill which has just got passed in the House too.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs is due to publish his new book soon. The Anarchist in the Library look at the politics of peer to peer networks.

Lawmeme at Yale report on a case of a Turkish hacker helping the FBI to catch two child abusers. The cases raise interesting legal questions. The judge in one, for example, concluded that the hacker was acting as an agent of law enforcement and was in breach of the 4th amendment, hence his evidence was excluded from the case. The report also points out that the CSEA part of Homeland Security Act doesn't account for hackers who do good.