The U.S. Justice Department has told a secret surveillance court that it opposes a request from technology companies to reveal more about the demands they receive for user information, according to court papers released on Wednesday. Read more on Reuters. Related: Response of the United States to Motions for Declaratory Judgement Declaration of Andrew G….
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Va. starting to develop a master identity database
Peter Bacqué reports: Using Department of Motor Vehicles records as its core, the state government is quietly developing a master identity database of Virginia residents for use by state agencies. The state enterprise record – the master electronic ID database – would help agencies ferret out fraud and help residents do business electronically with the state more…
Documents leaked by Snowden reveal NSA’s attempts to connect the dots using our email and phone contacts
James Risen and Laura Poitras report: Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials. […] The…
U.S. Misses Deadline in NSA ‘Dragnet’ Case, Has Excuse
Nick DiVito reports: The federal government wants more time to defend its massive domestic surveillance program against the ACLU’s claims that it is an unconstitutional “dragnet” on the phone records of every American. A brief opposing the ACLU’s demands for a preliminary injunction was due Thursday, but the government said in a letter that night to U.S….