Ellen Nakashima reports: An Oregon man convicted last year of attempted terrorism filed a motion Monday that paves the way for the first constitutional challenge by a criminal defendant to a warrantless surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 22, was found guilty of attempting to use a weapon of mass…
Category: Govt
Careful! Your Company May Be a Defacto Data Broker: Are Privacy Regulators Going for Broke(rs) as part of the 2014 Legislative and Privacy Enforcement Agenda?
Pamela Jones Harbour writes: Concerns about privacy practices in the data broker industry, and the privacy implications about the lack of transparency “behind-the-scenes,” will remain a topic of intense regulatory and legislative focus in 2014. The Federal Trade Commission has defined “data brokers” as companies that collect personal information about consumers from a variety of…
Telecom Believed to Be at Center of Gov Court Fight Files Surveillance Transparency Report
Kim Zetter reports: A small telecom believed to be at the center of a historic court battle over government surveillance published its first transparency report on Thursday noting that it had received 16 government requests for customer data in 2013. But the report may be most significant for what it doesn’t say. Credo Mobile, the…
FCC Seeks Public Comment to Protect Phone Record Privacy
EPIC notes: The Federal Communications Commission has invited public comments on a petition requesting the FCC to rule that the sale of consumer phone records to the government is a violation of the federal Communications Act. EPIC joined the petition, which was organized by Public Knowledge. In 2013, EPIC urged the FCC to determine whether AT&T violated the Communications Act when…