Adam Klasfeld reports: The FBI has been deploying unmanned aircraft for domestic surveillance for seven years, though the agency first acknowledged their use in July, the Justice Department’s inspector general reported Thursday. FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed the program’s existence during congressional testimony. The inspector general’s first audit of the program reveals that it did…
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Close ties between White House, NSA spying review
Related to the previous post about Raul’s OpEd and whether anyone the government appoints could be trusted to be a genuine privacy advocate, consider this news story by Stephen Braun of the Associated Press last week: Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a…
How Mike Rogers Buries NSA-Related Documents, While Pretending He Made Them Available
Tim Cushing writes: Senator Mike Rogers heads up the House Intelligence Committee and he, along with Dutch Ruppersberger, have taken a squarely antagonistic stance against any other members of Congress who wish to do perform the oversight duties they’re tasked with. This attitude has resulted in a wholly uninformed Congress which relies on the Intelligence Committee to…
Senator asks if FBI can get iPhone 5S fingerprint data via Patriot Act
Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica reports that Senator Al Franken has been asking Apple CEO Tim Cook some good questions. Here’s part of the Senator’s letter: Does Apple consider fingerprint data to be the “contents” of communications, customer or subscriber records, or a “subscriber number or identity” as defined in the Stored Communications Act? (10) Under…