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…
Category: Govt
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…
Privacy group files FTC complaint to push Google to extend right to be forgotten to US
Grant Gross reports: Google’s refusal to implement the EU’s controversial right to be forgotten rules in the U.S. amounts to an unfair and deceptive business practice, a frequent critic of the search engine giant said. Consumer Watchdog will file a complaint against Google with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Tuesday, said John Simpson, director of…