Mike Masnick writes: Even while NSA defenders are bitching about Senator Ron Wyden hinting strongly about the NSA and the DOJ abusing various interpretations of the law to spy on Americans with the bulk collection of data, it seems that neither Wyden nor Senator Mark Udall are planning to back down. Specifically, Wyden noted (as explained below)…
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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Wednesday: Strengthening Privacy Rights and National Security: Oversight of FISA Surveillance Program
You will be able to watch this online via the “webcast link” at http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=0d93f03188977d0d41065d3fa041decd Strengthening Privacy Rights and National Security: Oversight of FISA Surveillance Programs” Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226 9:00 a.m. Panel I The Honorable James Cole Deputy Attorney General Department of Justice Washington, DC John C. Inglis Deputy…
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that compelling providers to produce historical cell site information under SCA is constitutional
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its opinion in IN RE: APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR HISTORICAL CELL SITE DATA. The court split 2-1 on the issue of whether court orders issued under the Stored Communications Act compelling providers to produce customers’ historical cell site information are unconstitutional. The court…
“Zero privacy violations” in NSA programs, Rogers says
Rep. Mike Rogers has jumped on Michele Bachmann’s comparison of NSA bulk collection of call records to phone books: There are “zero privacy violations” in the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said Sunday on “Face the Nation,” just days after the chamber narrowly rejected a measure…