Ellen Nakashima reports: A drop in Americans’ trust in the government is making the difficult task of public-private cooperation against cyber-threats even more difficult. And that has officials such as Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, scrambling to shore up confidence in his agency, whose image has taken a beating in…
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Court Issues Opinion In EPIC v. ODNI After “In Camera” Review
From the good folks at EPIC: A federal court has issued an opinion in EPIC v. ODNI, EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concerning possible violations of the Privacy Act. As a result of filing the lawsuit, EPIC obtained seven documents that ODNI had previously withheld from the public. The documents concerned ODNI’s consolidation of databases…
Judge won’t delay NSA surveillance lawsuit
Wow. I didn’t expect this. Josh Gerstein reports that the government’s request for a stay due to the government shutdown in EFF’s litigation in First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. National Security Agency was denied. Read more on Politico.
Government shutdown: Surveillance panel shut down, DOJ asks for stay in FISC
Josh Gerstein and Mike Allen report: A panel President Barack Obama set up in August to assess the government’s use of surveillance technologies hit some turbulence related to the government shutdown last week and found itself effectively frozen on Friday after its staff was furloughed, according to a person briefed on the panel’s operations. The…