Nicholas Iovino reports: A federal judge signaled Friday that he may end more than a decade of litigation over the government’s mass surveillance program because advancing the lawsuit could threaten national security. “The court is concerned that it has reached the point that further litigation poses a not insignificant risk of disclosure of national security…
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DEA says AT&T still provides access to billions of phone records
Zack Whittaker reports: A program that allows drug agents to obtain a pool of billions of call records from AT&T is “still active,” according to a watchdog report. The report, published Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general, confirmed the program — named in the report only as Project C — continues to provide access…
Connecting the dots between the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) and ePrivacy Directive
Here are commentaries by lawyers at two law firms on the dots-connection attempt: EDPB Joins the Dots of ePrivacy and GDPR – Eduardo Ustaran and Elizabeth Campion of Hogan Lovells on Chronicle of Data Protection. EDPB Issues Opinion on the Interplay between the ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR – Kristof Van Quathem and Nicholas Shepherd…
Hearing Friday in Jewel NSA Spying Lawsuit: EFF Asks Court to Let Case Proceed to Determine Constitutionality of Mass Surveillance
Oakland, California—On Friday, March 29, at 9:00 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will tell a federal court that its clients should be allowed to proceed with their case challenging the constitutionality of NSA spying. The government’s latest attempts to prevent the court from evaluating the legality of surveilling millions of innocent Americans should be…