Adam Klasfeld reports: With a pleasant-sounding name and acronym, the CLOUD Act stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data, but human rights groups take a far less sunny view of the bill than the tech giants pushing for its passage through Congress. Possibly heading to Capitol Hill next week, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook…
Category: Govt
Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights
Sam Levin reports: There are a growing number of reports of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) searching the electronic devices of passengers on domestic flights in the US, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has sued the federal agency for records. The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the…
See-through body scanners, with the same old privacy and constitutional questions.
So Joe Cadillic sent me a gentle “I told you all so” pointer today. Referring to an ACLU post, TSA Tests See-Through Scanners on Public in New York’s Penn Station, Joe reminds us of this post of his from last August. When he’s right, he’s right.
EPIC Presses Department of Defense on Privacy of Cyber Threat Information
From EPIC.org: In a statement to Congress in advance of a hearing on the Department of Defense’s cyber operations, EPIC urged lawmakers to consider the privacy impact of cyber policies. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 allowed the federal government to obtain cyber threat information from the private sector—much of which concerns the activities…