I was waiting to see if he’d write about this case, and I’m glad to see Orin Kerr has: The Post’s Tom Jackman has an interesting story about a criminal case pending in Los Angeles before U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney: At a giant Best Buy repair shop in Brooks, Ky., Geek Squad technicians work on computers…
Category: Govt
Is DHS grabbing too much information and power while we are just watching Trump’s tweets?
Joe Cadillic gets so excited when someone else posts something that he’s been screaming writing about about for ages. In August, Joe recognized that DHS offering extra security for elections by declaring the election process as “critical infrastructure” had the potential to expand DHS’s power waaaay too much. Of course, the government sees it differently and…
NY Times Wants Records on Yahoo Scanning Email for Feds
Josh Russell reports: The New York Times has asked a federal judge to force production of an order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that requires Yahoo to bulk-scan emails for U.S. intelligence agencies. Filing suit Wednesday in the Southern District of New York, the complaint comes roughly two months after the Times’ Washington correspondent Charlie Savage…
FTC Charges D-Link Put Consumers’ Privacy at Risk Due to the Inadequate Security of Its Computer Routers and Cameras
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Taiwan-based computer networking equipment manufacturer D-Link Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary, alleging that inadequate security measures taken by the company left its wireless routers and Internet cameras vulnerable to hackers and put U.S. consumers’ privacy at risk. In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California,…