When: Wednesday, Feb. 5th, 2014 Time: 2pm-3pm ET Hashtag: #FTCpriv Twitter Account: @JulieBrillFTC Please join FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in a Twitter Chat to discuss data security, privacy, and the Internet of things. Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner in April 2010. She is an advocate of protecting consumers’ privacy, especially with new online and mobile technologies….
Category: Govt
Joint Statement by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder on New Reporting Methods for National Security Orders
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…
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,…