Edward Moyer reports: Tech firms including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft received money from the National Security Agency to cover legal-compliance costs related to the NSA’s Prism surveillance program, according to the latest Edward Snowden documents published by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Read more on CNET, but frankly, I do not see this as any…
Category: Govt
Obama announces NSA review panel
Gregory Ferenstein writes: So far, Obama is keeping his promise to create a truly independent review board over national surveillance policy. Today, ABC reports that privacy hawk and Center for American Progress fellow, Peter Swire, will join a small group of government insiders to draft a public report on the National Security Agency’s civil liberties record. The review panel…
Who Is The More Active Privacy Enforcer: FTC or OCR?
Robert Gellman writes: Those who follow FTC privacy activities are already aware of the hype that surrounds the FTC’s enforcement actions. For years, American businesses and the Department of Commerce have loudly touted the FTC as a privacy enforcer equivalent to EU Data Protection Authorities. The Commission is routinely cited as providing the enforcement mechanism…
Joint Statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency
ODNI and NSA are not happy with how the media re-cast a WSJ report from yesterday: Press reports based on an article published in today’s Wall Street Journal mischaracterize aspects of NSA’s data collection activities conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The NSA does not sift through and have unfettered access…