Were they not paying attention or did they think the public would just be okay with greater invasions of our privacy? Charlie Savage reports: The Obama administration is on the verge of permitting the National Security Agency to share more of the private communications it intercepts with other American intelligence agencies without first applying any…
Category: Govt
Court filing confirms Carnegie Mellon University hacked Tor to unmask users
Ryan Whitwam reports: The Tor Project claimed last year that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) were behind an attack on Tor that was used to unmask users. CMU released a vague statement that strongly implied that the FBU had indeed subpoenaed the university for its research, and now we have confirmation. A court filing from one…
Apple vs. FBI is not “privacy vs. security.” It’s much bigger than that.
I haven’t been blogging about the Apple vs. FBI controversy, which may seem odd given that this is a privacy site. But the issues are so complex, and the available facts have been dribbling out in such a way that it’s hard to get a clear sense of what happened, what might happen, and the…
EPIC Prevails in Passenger Screening Lawsuit Against DHS
From EPIC: EPIC has prevailed in EPIC v. DHS, a case involving a controversial passenger screening program operated by Customs and Border Protection. The agency combines detailed personal information with secret algorithms to assign “risk assessments” to travelers, including US citizens. EPIC sued the DHS and argued that the agency unlawfully withheld records under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, a…