Cat Zakrzewski reports: A coalition of 30 companies and privacy groups, including Reddit and search engine DuckDuckGo, on Tuesday demanded that President Barack Obama promise to reject a controversial cybersecurity bill. The bill has come under fire for its loose limits on sharing information about cyber threats without properly filtering personal information from it among government agencies, including the National…
Category: Govt
UK: Emergency data retention law could fail same tests as the existing law
John Salmon and Luke Scanlon write: The government has proposed a new data retention law to replace one that was based on an EU directive that EU’s top court the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down in April. […] While the proposed Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (9-page / 153KB PDF) seeks to improve the…
Government Continues To Pretend People Use Cell Phones Simply To Create A Wealth Of Data For Law Enforcement To Access Without A Warrant
Tim Cushing writes: You’d think approved warrants must be like albino unicorns for all the arguing the government does to avoid having to run one by a judge. It continually acts as though therearen’t statistics out there that show obtaining a warrant is about as difficult as obeying the laws of thermodynamics. Wiretap warrants have been approved 99.969% of…
ODNI denies allegations that U.S. surveils U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activities
While I was away (and did you miss me?), ODNI issued two statements on July 9. Joint Statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice on Court-ordered Legal Surveillance of U.S. Persons It is entirely false that U.S. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political, religious or activist…