From EPIC.org: EPIC has submitted urgent Freedom of Information Act requests to the Department of Homeland Security (USCIS and the Office of Immigration Statistics) and the Census Bureau for records about the planned transfer of personal data from DHS to the Census Bureau. After a federal judge in California ruled that adding a citizenship question…
Category: Govt
Nicky Hager settles charges against Westpac in significant NZ privacy case
Over the past five years, I’ve posted a number of stories concerning the illegal surveillance of journalist Nicky Hager and Hager’s attempts to hold the government accountable. I have nothing but respect for him for pushing back against illegal surveillance. Some of the significant aspects of his case arose from an illegal raid in 2014…
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
Charlie Savage reports: The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks. The agency has not used the…
Privacy, Policy, and the Illusion of Control
Dennis Fisher reports: These are strange times in Washington. Congress, which has spent decades conspicuously showing only the most passing interest in privacy, suddenly is awash in proposed privacy legislation and the calendars in both chambers are crowded with committee hearings on the topic. The unending string of breaches and data-misuse and abuse scandals, coupled…