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…
Category: Govt
NSA releases civil liberties report
Mario Trujillo reports: The National Security Agency released a report Tuesday attempting to outline the privacy and civil liberty protections that go into the collections of signal intelligence under authority from a decade’s old executive order, known as 12333. The NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office, which released the 17-page report, was established in January…
Support for Spying Kept Secret, Despite Uncle Sam’s Bad Faith
Adam Klasfeld reports: Well before Edward Snowden leaked documents about the National Security Administration’s massive domestic-surveillance program, the American Civil Liberties Union sought clues through the Freedom of Information Act about how government interpreted its spying powers. The ACLU’s lawsuit, filed three years ago, demanded that the government produce documents describing its interpretation of section…
Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name
Chris Hamby writes: A DEA agent commandeered a woman’s identity, created a phony Facebook account in her name, and posted racy photos he found on her seized cell phone. The government said he had the right to do that. Read more on BuzzFeed. How can this possibly be legal? It’s just so very, very wrong.