So it turns out that one company did demand – and get – the government’s legal rationale underpinning the 215 bulk collection program – a rationale that the rest of us didn’t get to see until more recently. Ellen Nakashima reports: Under threat of a court challenge, the Obama administration in 2010 revealed to Sprint the secret…
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ODNI and DOJ release additional declassified FISC filings and orders related to Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act
Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released, in redacted form, a previously classified series of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court filings and orders from 2009-2010 concerning the collection of bulk telephony metadata under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. These documents relate to a robust interaction that…
AU: Information Commissioner out as privacy/FOI office shut down
John Hilvert reports: Australian Information Commissioner John McMillian will lose his role leading the OAIC, with the Abbott Government disbanding the peak privacy and FOI authority in the name of budget savings. McMillan told iTnews that he only heard about the plans to abolish his office a week ago and said he is disappointed with the decision….
Who, Us? NSA Says; of Course We Complied
Jack Bouboushian reports: The NSA claims it has complied with a court order to preserve evidence in a challenge to its secret surveillance program – under its own reading of plaintiffs’ claims, which the plaintiffs dispute. The government told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in March that it did not believe the evidence preservation…