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…
Category: Govt
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…
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…