Joe Palazzola reports: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court occupies a super secure space inside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, behind a biometric hand-scanner and wood-and-metal doors that seal into the walls. The secret courtroom has been forbidden to all but the government officials seeking warrants in national-security investigations. But it may soon admit an outsider….
Category: Govt
All the Ways the Government Can Use Your Phone to Watch You
Robinson Meyer has a primer on all the ways the government can use your cellphone to surveill you. The article’s on NextGov (via The Atlantic).
Stingray Concession Not Enough for Defenders
Nick Cahill reports: Nine years after it began tracking private citizens’ cellphone calls and text messages without warrants, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday it will no longer do so without a court order. Sheriff Scott Jones announced the new policy on Stingray technology days after the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office asked a…
Why the FTC, America’s top privacy regulator, actually hates a privacy bill everyone else seems to want
Brian Fung reports: By now, Americans are all too familiar with the ways hackers can gain unauthorized entry into their personal accounts online. But did you know that the government can currently seize many of your e-mails without even getting a warrant? That’s the result of a gaping loophole in a nearly 30-year-old law known as the…