Heads up, UK privacy advocates! Svenja O’Donnell and Scott Hamilton report: The U.K. government will introduce anti-terrorism legislation this week requiring Internet companies to provide user data to authorities. The bill, to be published on Nov. 26 and fast-tracked through Parliament so it becomes law before the general election in May […] Under the proposed…
Category: Govt
Some NSA officials tried to rein in surveillance in 2009, but Obama resisted
Ken Dilanian of AP grabs the exclusive: Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency had been secretly collecting American telephone records, some NSA executives voiced strong objections to the program, current and former intelligence officials say. The program exceeded the agency’s mandate to focus on foreign…
NSA reform bill lives or dies tonight
I know the headline sounds like a season cliff-hanger promo, but we really should see some drama tonight in Congress. Dan Froomkin writes: Nearly a year and a half after American citizens first learned they were being spied on by their own government, the U.S. Senate tonight will definitively vote to end bulk surveillance of…
FTC takes action against businesses that lie to us about threats to our computers
Sometimes I find out about FTC enforcement actions before the FTC has disclosed anything. Case in point (no pun intended), Courthouse News reports: Inbound Call Experts et al. defraud consumers by lying about threats to their computers, the FTC says. There is no mention of this case on the FTC’s site (yet).