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…
Category: Govt
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…
Senator Paul Sues Obama IRS Over Privacy-killing Pseudo-treaties
Alex Newman writes: Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the group Republicans Overseas Action are planning a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, the latest effort to stop a deeply controversial scheme known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that turns constitutional privacy protections upside down. Represented by a leading constitutional…