A federal judge with a secret court has refused the Obama administration’s request to extend storage of classified National Security Agency telephone surveillance data beyond the current five-year limit. The Justice Department had argued several pending lawsuits over the bulk data collection program require it to preserve the records for a longer period of time….
Category: Govt
CIA draws scrutiny over searching Senate panel’s computers for interrogation report
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…
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…