FTC Commissioner Julie Brill covered a lot of ground in her speech at the Tuck School of Business, Darthmouth College. You can read her statement here (pdf).
Category: Govt
UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications, while Lenovo addresses Superfish #SuperFail
Alan Travis and Owen Bowcott report: The regime under which UK intelligence agencies, including MI5 and MI6, have been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients for the past five years is unlawful, the British government has admitted. […] The admission that the regime surrounding state snooping on legally privileged communications has also failed to…
Our brief in support of Twitter’s lawsuit against the US government for violating the First Amendment
Trevor Timm writes: Yesterday, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic filed a legal brief on behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation in Twitter’s important lawsuit against the government for violating their First Amendment rights. Buoyed by the Snowden disclosures that began eighteen months ago, tech companies like Twitter have been attempting to issue detailed…
N.J. improperly denied request for Muslim surveillance documents, court rules
Brent Johnson reports: A New Jersey appeals court is pushing for the state to release documents from an investigation into the New York Police Department’s controversial surveillance of Muslims in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. The three-judge panel last week said the state improperly denied an Open Public Records Act request that advocacy…