I don't know where I speculated about any conspiracy above its like you guys have to label anything as conspiracy unless it is legitmated by the corporate press. Thus Cheney and Pakistani intelligence are reported as allies, not a conspiracy of death like it should be - Mohammed Atta meeting with heroin dealers and their secret meetings and OH DEAR! I'm a conspiracy terrorist - I keep posting to this thread to show the tendencies of american cops these days - who we learn are begin trained around the country by Blackwater. But there's no conspiracy there...keep up the self censorship, folks, Rove approves!
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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is demanding that Phoenix New Times turn over records relating to anyone who has visited the newspaper's Web site in the past four years.
A grand-jury subpoena asks for Web addresses, shopping habits and information about what Internet sites readers visited before logging onto the New Times.
Legal experts say the subpoena, which also demands reporters' notes and records on stories going back three years, is overreaching and unconstitutional.
But the case raises important issues about privacy and serves as a reminder about the amount of information someone leaves when they use a computer to visit a Web site.
Among the items the subpoena demands are:
• Documents, notes, e-mails and any other material related to a series of articles written by several New Times reporters.
• An accounting of the number of people who viewed each article online.
• A list of every page on the New Times site that users have visited since Jan. 1, 2004. That would include the names of every person who read any story, ad or listing in the paper.
• Any information obtained from "cookies" on the New Times site. Cookies are used to identify and track an individual's computer use. Think of it as an online fingerprint of what you have touched on a specific Internet site.
• The computer domain name of anyone accessing the paper's Web site, phxnewtimes.com. A domain name identifies a computer or computer network used to access the Web.
• All Web sites that readers visited prior to opening the New Times site. That would include any site - bank, social networking, news, information, pornographic - that a reader visited before logging onto New Times.
• The dates and times of all visits to the New Times site.
• The browser used by each New Times reader, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox.
• The type of operating system software used by each New Times reader.
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