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…
Category: Govt
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…
Russia to monitor ‘all communications’ at Winter Olympics in Sochi
Shaun Walker reports: Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show. Russia’s powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored…