ODNI has posted its first “Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities” for calendar year 2012: For context and additional information and requests under other legal authorities, see this post by ODNI. How many NSLs would you guess were issued in 2013? Did you guess over 19,000?
Category: Govt
About That Creepy Biometric Database, FBI, We’d Like to Know a Bit More
J.D. Tuccille writes: The FBI’s facial recognition database, into which it wants to put 52 million of our mugs by the end of 2015, is only part of its larger Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. The NGI program is intended to give the feds a full range of means to identify us according to biometric markers, including facial…
Facebook Fighting Bulk Search Warrants In Court
Chris Sonderby, Facebook Deputy General Counsel, has an update on Facebook’s attempts to fight bulk warrants from the government: … Since last summer, we’ve been fighting hard against a set of sweeping search warrants issued by a court in New York that demanded we turn over nearly all data from the accounts of 381 people…
EFF and 31 Other Organizations Call for Privacy Assessment of FBI’s Biometric Database
Jennifer Lynch writes: The FBI plans to roll out the face recognition component of its massive Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database this summer—but the Bureau has six years of catching up to do in explaining to Americans exactly how it plans to collect, use and protect this data. Today we called on Attorney General Eric Holder to do…