Gallowglass

The last refuge of scoundrels

Orwin Kerr at the Volokhs has posted a link to an interesting paper that he’s written on the Patriot Act and Internet surveillance. He provided some legal advice which seems to have found its way into the bill, and reckons that Patrot didn’t have all the nasty consequences for privacy that critics have claimed. Me, I’m just a blogger and political scientist who’s pretty ignorant about the minutiae of this piece of legislation, but I did just sit through a session on “pen registers” and similar arcana at CFP last week, which came to conclusions that ran directly against those of Kerr’s piece. Read the summary of David Sobel’s contribution to see the other side’s argument, or even better, listen to the MP3 of his panel, and make up yer own mind about who’s right.