The IPT's initial ruling said that communications from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the South African non-profit Legal Resources Centre had been illegally retained and examined.
First, the Federal Elections Commission needs to revisit its very limited rulings on electronic communications.
Washington is one of a small number of states that doesn't routinely publish its "private letter rulings" -- written communications from state tax officials to taxpayers about how Washington's tax law applies to a particular situation.
After the ruling was issued, Dennis O'Shea, communications director for Johns Hopkins, estimated that compliance could cost the university millions of dollars a year.
The lower court ruling put stored electronic communications held overseas beyond the reach of U.S. prosecutors even when there is probable cause that they contain evidence of a crime, Justice Department lawyers said in court papers.
"It's perverse that Mitt Romney won't share details about what he'd do for the millions he'd leave uninsured or at the whims of insurance companies when he 'kills Obamacare dead,' but he'll share the hourly details of his fundraising after the Supreme Court ruling," wrote Obama campaign communications director Ben LaBolt.
The purely domestic messages collected in the hunt for discussions about targeted foreigners represent a relatively small percentage of what the ruling said were 250 million communications intercepted each year in that broader program.
On Monday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott lost a leadership ballot among the lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Party to Malcolm Turnbull, the communications minister, for whom Abbott is expected to step aside.
This ruling will effectively prevent all communications companies from actively trying to persuade customers to reconsider their pending move to a new service.
You've changed the world for the better … Bottom line: the #SafeHarbor ruling indicates the indiscriminate interception of communications is a violation of rights.
There is almost certainly a connection between the Strasbourg ruling and the shelving of the communications monitoring bill; we might be getting the signal that a limit has been reached.
