Mark Rumold writes: For almost two years, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court’s opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated…
Category: Govt
The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy
One of the liveliest discussions at the recent Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference was about a paper by Dan Solove and Woody Hartzog, “The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy.” Because of conference rules, I could not blog about it previously, but the authors have now uploaded it to SSRN, where you can download it for…
Miranda had ‘highly sensitive stolen information’, Home Office suggests
Nicholas Watt and Rowena Mason of The Guardian report that the UK government is defending its detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner at Heathrow airport, claiming he had “highly sensitive stolen information that would help terrorism”. Amid calls from across the political spectrum for a fuller explanation of the treatment of Miranda at Heathrow after a…
NSA Critics, Right All Along
Charles C. W. Cooke writes that in the wake of an audit of NSA abuses (or “errors” if you are of more gentle persuasion) published by the Washington Post last week: To both their credit and discredit, people in the United States continue to exhibit a definite fear of accusing public servants of mendacity. It…