Walter's "Cognitive extension: the parity argument, functionalism, and the mark of the cognitive"

Available online here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/h21565731471r11h/fulltext.pdf;.

Sven has a nice discussion of the use of the Parity Principle.

Check out, as well, the other papers in the issue by my buds, Carl, Larry, Jacqueline, John, Philippe, and Tom.  It was edited by Jacqueline Sullivan.

The U.S. Supreme Court and EC

"The Supreme Court has yet to confront the issue. But in a disappointing ruling in 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco said that agents at a border need not meet even the low threshold of reasonable suspicion to justify a warrantless laptop search. The ruling reversed a lower court’s finding that laptops are “an extension of our own memory” and too personal to allow government searches without some reasonable and articulable suspicion"

Full story here.  (Thanks to Tom Polger for the link.)