Friday, February 19, 2010

SPB News for Friday




Poll: 40% trust PBS 'great deal,' compared to 29% for Fox, 27% for CNN.

Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo (Center for Constitutional Rights) Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold federal officials and the United States responsible for the men’s torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths at Guantánamo. Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the men had committed suicide... In dismissing the case, the district court ruled that the deceased’s constitutional claims that it was a violation of due process and cruel treatment to detain them for four years without charge while subjecting them to inhumane and degrading conditions of confinement and violent acts of torture and abuse, could not be heard in federal court.

Pennsylvania schools spying on students using laptop --Webcams, claims lawsuit Class-action suit alleges schools remotely activate Webcams on school-issued notebooks A suburban Philadelphia school district remotely activates the cameras in school-provided laptops to spy on students in their homes, a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleged. According to the lawsuit filed by a high school student and his parents, the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. has spied on students and families by "indiscriminate use of and ability to remotely activate the Webcams incorporated into each laptop issued to students by the School District."

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