Brad Smith writes: On Thursday, a federal court in Seattle unsealed documents related to an FBI National Security Letter that Microsoft successfully challenged in court late last year. This marks an important and successful step to protect Microsoft’s enterprise customers regarding government surveillance. Because information about the case wasn’t public until today, this is our first opportunity…
Category: Govt
How Congress & The White House Are Trying To Screw You Over In Secret With The Revamped USA Freedom Act
Mike Masnick writes: So we already wrote about how the House completely watered down the USA Freedom Act to the point that it really does very little, leading basically all of the civil liberties community to withdraw their support for the bill. If you want to know a little more about the politics at play, I highly…
Canadian telecom giants worried about “antagonizing” feds on lawful access: documents
Alex Boutilier reports: Bell, Rogers and Research In Motion pushed to hold back details on how often customer data is being handed over to law enforcement agencies, recently released documents show. The companies were concerned about “antagonizing” the federal government and police if they shared too much information about authorities snooping their customers’ personal data,…
How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool
Harrison Weber reports: The National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning Facebook into a surveillance tool. Documents released alongside security journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “No Place To Hide,” reveal the NSA and FBI partnership, in which the two agencies developed techniques for exploiting Facebook chats, capturing private…