Andy Greenberg reports: Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI’s investigation. Now the judge in that case has spoken, and it’s clear she intends to put…
Category: Govt
‘National Security Letters’ Face Sharp Scrutiny in 9th Circuit
To everyone’s great disappointment, the Ninth Circuit decided at the last minute that it would not livestream oral arguments in EFF’s case about National Security Letters. If you were on Twitter, you had some great live-tweeting going on. Audio of the hearing was made available last night on the court’s website. Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News…
Defendant can withdraw U.S. terror plea due to warrantless surveillance: judge
Joseph Ax of Reuters reports: An Albanian man who pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge can withdraw his plea after the U.S. government disclosed it monitored his communications without a warrant, a federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled, likely setting up a rare constitutional challenge to the controversial practice. U.S. District Judge John Gleeson said…
Taking the fight for #transparency to court
Ben Lee, Vice-President, Legal at Twitter writes: As part of our latest transparency report released in July, we described how we were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. Our ability to speak has been restricted by laws that prohibit and even criminalize a service…