WikiLeaks Hunt Danger to Free Speech
This [Congressional Research Service] report identifies some criminal statutes that may apply [to dissemination of classified documents], but notes that these have been used almost exclusively to prosecute individuals with access to classified information (and a corresponding obligation to protect it) who make it available to foreign agents, or to foreign agents who obtain classified information unlawfully while present in the United States. Leaks of classified information to the press have only rarely been punished as crimes, and we are aware of no case in which a publisher of information obtained through unauthorized disclosure by a government employee has been prosecuted for publishing it. There may be First Amendment implications that would make such a prosecution difficult, not to mention political ramifications based on concerns about government censorship.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/information-antidote-fear-wikileaks-law-and-you
The government records every corner of the internet
In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it is easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the internet. But the government remembers. EFF recently received a number of documents from the CIA and the FBI highlighting the government's ability to scour not only social networks, but record each and every corner of the internet. These documents were released in the second of a series of government disclosures resulting from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in which EFF, with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, sought information on the procedures and guidelines employed by government agencies when conducting social network monitoring or investigations.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/government-monitors-much-more-social-networks
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