Craig Whitlock reports: The White House is preparing a directive that would require federal agencies to publicly disclose for the first time where they fly drones in the United States and what they do with the torrents of data collected from aerial surveillance. Read more on Washington Post.
Category: Govt
Is Apple Picking a Fight With the U.S. Government?
Matthew Green responds to Orin Kerr’s concerns, writing, in part: Apple is not designing systems to prevent law enforcement from executing legitimate warrants. It’s building systems that prevent everyone who might want your data—including hackers, malicious insiders, and even hostile foreign governments—from accessing your phone. This is absolutely in the public interest. Moreover, in the…
Apple Still Has Plenty Of Your Data For The Feds
Micah Lee reports: In a much-publicized open letter last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to protect user privacy with improved encryption on iPhones and iPads and a hard line toward government agents. It was a huge and welcome step toward thwarting the surveillance state, but it also seriously oversold Apple’s commitment to privacy. Yes, Apple launched a tough-talking…
Apple’s dangerous game, part 3: Where do you draw the line, and what’s the privacy tradeoff?
Orin Kerr writes: Having waded through hundreds of responses to my posts on Apple’s new iOS8, I wanted to ask two related questions to the many readers who were critical of (and in some cases, deeply hostile to) my initial post. The first question is the “where would you draw the line” question, and the…