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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Marketplace wrote an article on Peter Swire, a computer-privacy expert at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech who served on the Obama Administration's NSA review panel. Swire said that if such a commission were to be established and recommend legislation, the process could succeed — in spite of partisan divisions and lack of progress on many issues in Congress.
Read the full article here: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/22/world/apple-v-justice-department-battle-over-iphone