Joe Rodriguez reports: After success passing a law that bars private employers from demanding social media passwords from employees and job applicants, San Jose Assemblywoman Nora Campos has suspended efforts to extend those protections to government workers. “We have decided to the park the bill for the year,” Campos spokesman Steve Harmon said this week….
Category: Govt
DOT Proposes Mandating Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed
Terence P. Jeffrey reports: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an ” advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on “vehicle-to-vehicle communications.” What NHTSA is proposing could begin a transformation in the American transportation system that makes our lives better and freer — or gives government more power…
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
Ryan Gallagher reports: The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first definitive evidence that…
“Checks and balances” thrown in the garbage: A new out-of-control spying loophole
Emptywheel’s Marcy Wheeler writes on Salon: It has been a month since former State Department section chief for Internet freedom John Napier Tye wrote a Washington Post Op-Ed warning about Executive Order 12333 — the order the executive branch uses to self-authorize spying overseas. “The order as used today,” Tye wrote, “threatens our democracy.” Since that time, his concerns…