Dara Kerr reports: The National Security Agency has been allegedly accessing routers, servers, and other computer network devices to plant backdoors and other spyware before they’re shipped overseas, according to the Guardian. The news about the NSA’s alleged interception of hardware comes via journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book about Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks titled “No Place…
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The Anatomy of an FTC Privacy and Data Security Consent Order
Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog write: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently entered into a consent order with the media service Snapchat for not living up to its promises about how it maintains the privacy and security of user’s data. The FTC order prohibits Snapchat from “misrepresenting the extent to which it maintains the privacy, security, or confidentiality of…
Criminal Defendants Should Have Chance to Review FISA Materials, EFF and ACLU Argue in Amicus Brief
Hanni Fakhoury writes: In the 36-year existence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the government has never disclosed classified FISA materials—the specific applications for surveillance and the factual affidavits that support the surveillance request—to a criminal defendant. That all changed in January 2014 when a federal judge in Chicago ordered the government to turn…
FBI wants easier process to hack suspects’ computers
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department is seeking a change in criminal rules that would make it easier for the FBI to obtain warrants to hack into suspects’ computers for evidence when the computer’s physical location is unknown — a problem that officials say is increasing as more and more crime is conducted online with tools to…