Aliya Sternstein reports: After a series of stinging government hacks, the Department of Homeland Security said scans of incoming Internet traffic from the public would be amped up. It has been unclear how this monitoring might affect the privacy of citizens and employees. Now, a little-noticed National Archives and Records Administration assessment offers some insight: Any surveillance…
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Suit claims Seattle garbage-collection checks violate privacy
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…
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…