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….
Category: Govt
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…
NSA reportedly installing spyware on US-made hardware
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…
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…