Mark Rumold writes: On Monday, the US Department of Justice will release to the public hundreds of additional pages of government documents concerning its use of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the provision of law the NSA relies on to collect the call records of millions of Americans. The disclosures will follow closely on the heels…
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FTC Denies First Request For More Flexible Parental Consent Methods
Lindsey Tonsager writes: The FTC has denied AssertID’s request to recognize a new method for obtaining verifiable parental consent for the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information from children under 13. The application was the first of its kind to be filed since the FTC added a voluntary parental consent approval process to its revised rule implementing the…
Google updates transparency report
Pointer: Google has updated its transparency report. In a companion piece on their public policy blog, Richard Salgado, Google’s Legal Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security writes: In a year in which government surveillance has dominated the headlines, today we’re updating our Transparency Report for the eighth time. Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from…
Intelligence Lawyer Robert Litt Claims Searching For Possible Privacy Violations Will Violate Privacy
Tim Cushing writes: The ODNI’s head counsel, Robert Litt, had made statements over the past few months that seem to hint that he’s actually some sort of android, rather than a living, breathing human being. Maybe this is what happens to anyone who spends too long on the inside of the intelligence panopticon. When delivered…