Jack Bouboushian reports: The National Security Agency cannot destroy telephone-metadata records since they are evidence in civil litigation, a federal judge ruled Monday, though the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court said Friday that the government could not hold onto such records for more than five years. Read more about the rulings on Courthouse News.
Category: Govt
Government can’t hold NSA data longer
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….
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…