Tim Cushing reports: It’s amazing what effect a little public scrutiny has on government overreach. In the wake of inauguration day protests, the DOJ started fishing for information from internet service providers. First, it wanted info on all 1.2 million visitors of a protest website hosted by DreamHost. After a few months of bad publicity…
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FBI busts cyberstalker after VPN service without logs provides logs?
Swati Khandelwal reports – and comments – FBI recently arrested a psycho cyber stalker with the help of a popular VPN service and this case apparently exposed the company’s lies about the “no logs” policy. […] A 24-year-old Massachusetts man, Ryan Lin, has been arrested in a Cyberstalking case after one of the largest VPN…
US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans’ Financial Records
Jason Leopold and Jessica Garrison report: The intelligence division at the Treasury Department has repeatedly and systematically violated domestic surveillance laws by snooping on the private financial records of US citizens and companies, according to government sources. Over the past year, at least a dozen employees in another branch of the Treasury Department, the Financial…
Justice Department Accuses Google of “Alarming” Tactics in Fight over SCA Search Warrant
George A. LoBiondo and Craig A. Newman write: The ongoing dispute between the government and Google concerning the company’s refusal to hand over customer data stored on foreign servers has taken an odd twist. Now, the Justice Department is demanding that Google be sanctioned for not abiding by the court’s most recent decision—ordering it to…