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…
Category: Govt
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…
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional (update5)
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…