Grant Gross reports: A recent report from the U.S. intelligence director that provides the number of surveillance targets in 2013 is not specific enough to provide the transparency the nation’s residents need, two senators said Monday. The transparency report, issued Thursday by the Office of Director of National Intelligence, doesn’t reveal the specific number of people…
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Federal Trade Commission 2014 Privacy and Data Security Update
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is an independent U.S. law enforcement agency charged with protecting consumers and enhancing competition across broad sectors of the economy. The FTC’s primary legal authority comes from the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive practices in the marketplace. The FTC also has…
Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities
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?
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…