Owen Bowcott reports: US data storage systems operated by Facebook and other digital operators do not provide customers with protection from state surveillance, the European court of justice has ruled. The declaration by the EU court in Luxembourg that privacy is being compromised will have far-reaching consequences for the online industry and could force many companies to…
Category: Govt
FCC Cites Lyft Inc. and First National Bank Corp. for TCPA Violations
Hunton & Williams writes: On September 11, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that Lyft Inc. (“Lyft”) and First National Bank Corporation (“FNB”) violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) by forcing their users to consent to receive automated text messages as a condition of using their services. The FCC warned that these violations could result…
Watchdog: Top Secret Service official wanted information about Chaffetz made public
Shades of J. Edgar and dirty politics! I’m classifying this as a privacy breach and also an infosec breach as these data were supposed to be protected. Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon report: The Secret Service’s assistant director urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public,…
FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: The Justice Department is investigating the FBI’s use of information taken directly from mass surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA)’s collection of telephone metadata. The yield of that NSA spying program was described by a judge as a “staggering” amount of data when the agency’s ability to collect it was struck down…