Ellen Nakashima reports: The CIA searched computers intended to be used solely by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an apparent effort to determine how committee staff members gained access to a draft version of an internal agency review of its controversial interrogation program, U.S. officials said. The action, some officials say, would mark the first…
Category: Govt
TrustyCon: U.S. data privacy laws offer little protection from FBI seizures
Robert Richardson writes: According to one of the nation’s top digital civil liberties attorneys, U.S. companies have little legal recourse when powerful law enforcement agencies like the FBI make overreaching demands for their customers’ sensitive data. In a presentation at last Thursday’s inaugural TrustyCon event, attorney Marcia Hofmann told attendees that the circumstances in which private email…
Department of Justice Releases Documents on Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Applications to the FISC
March 4, 2014 On Friday, the Attorney General through the Department of Justice, declassified and released 24 documents that were responsive to a portion of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. These one-page documents, titled “The Attorney General’s Report on the Use of Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices…
Florida Cops’ Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
Kim Zetter reports: Police in Florida have offered a startling excuse for having used a controversial “stingray” cellphone tracking gadget 200 times without ever telling a judge: the device’s manufacturer made them sign a non-disclosure agreement that they say prevented them from telling the courts. The shocking revelation came during an appeal over a 2008…