Ewen MacAskill reports: Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the…
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Google Can’t Kill Email Privacy Claims
William Dotinga reports that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh seemed unwilling to toss out In re Google, Inc. – Gmail Litigation when Google sought dismissal of the case on Thursday: Google defended its various privacy polices and terms of service going back as far as 2007, which all warn users that information the company gets from the…
Domestic Drone Regulation for Safety and Privacy
Ken Anderson writes: Today’s (Sunday, Sep 8, 2013) New York Times has a story by Anne Eisenberg, “Preflight Turbulence for Commercial Drones.” […] However, as the article discusses, the same technologies which make drones so useful for mapping and surveying make them useful for surveillance of people, whether by government agencies or, for that matter, private…
Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying
Craig Timberg reports: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations…