Commissioner Julie Brill’s keynote speech at CFP yesterday is well worth reading. Here’s a small part of it where she addresses ideas apart from legislation: I would suggest we need a comprehensive initiative – one I am calling “Reclaim Your Name.” Reclaim Your Name would give consumers the knowledge and the technological tools to reassert…
Month: June 2013
NY: Court of Appeals: Round-the-clock GPS tracking of state worker ‘unreasonable’
Casey Seller reports: The state Court of Appeals has decided that the attachment of a GPS device on the personal vehicle of Michael Cunningham, a Department of Labor employee suspected of padding his time reports, was “unreasonable” in its scope. The use of the GPS device in the state Inspector General’s probe, the court concludes,…
EPIC FOIA Document Reveals CIA Collaboration in Domestic Surveillance
From EPIC.org: According to a Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General’s report obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA collaborated with the New York Police Department in domestic surveillance efforts. The CIA is prohibited from participating in domestic surveillance, but the report finds that the agency had embedded four officers within the NYPD over…
NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman disclose more from files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in…