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…
Category: Govt
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…
EPIC FOIA – FTC Confirms More than 25,000 Facebook Complaints are Pending
From EPIC.org: In response to a FOIA request from EPIC, the FTC has confirmed that there are over 25,000 complaints about Facebook pending with the Commission. In the eight (8) years since the FTC announced a consent order barring Facebook from making any misrepresentations about use privacy, the FTC has not taken a single enforcement…