Cyrus Farivar reports: Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, has estimated that it will cost the company between $100,000 and $1 million to defend its customers from what he described as an “overly broad subpoena.” Last month, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Coinbase could be ordered, at the request of the Internal Revenue Service, to provide years of…
Category: Govt
Four States Join InterConnect, a Prescription Data Sharing Network
From the press release: More than 55 million people from the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Texas are now covered by the prescription monitoring program (PMP) data sharing system administered by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) and technology partner Appriss Health. The addition of these states to the NABP PMP InterConnect® network brings the total collaboration to 37 states…
The Geek Squad and the Fourth Amendment
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…
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…