John Caher reports: The Bloomberg administration has agreed under a settlement announced on Wednesday to purge a New York City Police Department database containing personal information on individuals who were stopped by authorities, and also agreed to pay $10,000 to the lead plaintiff in a putative class action. Under the terms of the settlement, the city…
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IRS manual detailed DEA’s use of hidden intel evidence
John Shiffman and David Ingram report: Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years. The practice of recreating the investigative trail, highly criticized by…
Senator Schumer’s response to my concerns about NSA surveillance
Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to the recent revelations about the work of the National Security Agency. I share your concerns about protecting civil liberties while still keeping America safe. Twelve years after September 11th, our country has made great strides to prevent another terrorist attack against Americans at home and…
Surveillance scandal rips through hacker community
Seth Rosenblatt reports on the fall-out from recent disclosures of NSA surveillance and use of exploits: Information security professionals are not unified in their interpretation of Alexander’s attempt at a mea culpa at last week’s Black Hat conference here. Alex Stamos, a network infrastructure and security expert and the chief technical officer of Artemis, the company proposing…