Posts by Steve 18 10 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
You don't need to be able to see a complete call record to identify a dead body. You just need the company to tell you to whom that number is registered.
If you get to the address and the owner is still alive, then the phone was stolen and you can ask the owner (who's probably quite grateful at this point) for permission to go through the logs to find out where the phone has been and who it called.
"The law is ambiguous on whether someone else would infringe copyright if they copied your writ as a precedent for their own lawsuit," said Pinsent Masons' Connor. "The answer depends on whether or not the courts would see that as fair use being for the purpose of judicial proceedings and therefore exempt from copyright law or not."
Surely, if someone is preparing a lawsuit, then by definition it's for the purpose of judicial proceedings. otherwise, how could any lawsuit cite a precedent without infringing the copyright of whatever they're citing?
"It was coined back in the early 1990's by the CIA as a codename for their database of terrorist suspects."
Not originally. It started off as the database of the Islamic Conference (al Qaida means "the base"). It ended up being used to keep in touch with Islamic fighters in Afghanistan. It only became a terrorist database when the CIA decided they didn't like them anymore.
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