January 27, 2014 As indicated in the Justice Department’s filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the administration is acting to allow more detailed disclosures about the number of national security orders and requests issued to communications providers, the number of customer accounts targeted under those orders and requests, and the underlying legal authorities. Through…
Category: Govt
If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox
Kevin Poulsen reports: While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations. The bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting,…
Constitutional Challenge to No Fly List Upheld
Lorraine Bailey reports: Government agencies must face claims that they wrongly placed a U.S. citizen on the No Fly list and had him tortured in a Kuwaiti prison, a federal judge ruled. “A No Fly List designation transforms a person into a second class citizen, or worse,” U.S. District Judge Anthony Tsenga said. “The issue,…
Google and Verizon report explosion in government data requests, heavy reliance on metadata spying
SOSadmin writes: Google and Verizon have released relatively detailed transparency reports, showing for the first time how many subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, and wiretap orders they received during the first six months of 2013 and the year, respectively. The results confirm what we already knew: When law enforcement officials can obtain our private records without warrants, they…