Jack Broom reports: A group of privacy advocates is suing the city of Seattle, arguing that having garbage collectors look through people’s trash — to make sure food scraps aren’t going into the garbage — “violates privacy rights on a massive scale.” “A person has a legitimate expectation that the contents of his or her…
Category: Govt
NZ: Government requests for personal information to be tracked
Nicholas Jones reports: The number of times agencies such as the Police and Inland Revenue receive personal data from a range of companies is to be revealed. Companies that hand over the information – often without a warrant or the knowledge of the customer – will now be asked to provide a record of requests…
A.C.L.U. Asks Court to Stop Part of N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
Charlie Savage reports: The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to partially shut down the National Security Agency program that collects Americans’ phone records in bulk, which resumed last month after a lapse of several weeks. The move sets up a potential conflict between the regular court system and the nation’s secret spy court over whether…
False advertising for email privacy legislation
Mark J. Fitzgibbons writes: Current law allows the government to gain warrantless access to your emails that have been stored more than 180 days. That’s bad — and even worse, the legislation now being pushed to plug this loophole has its own major loophole. H.R. 699, “The Email Privacy Act,” is being hailed by its…