Today, Senators Wyden and Udall wrote to General Alexander requesting corrections in a recent NSA fact sheet on surveillance authorities. “In our judgement this inaccuracy is significant, as it portrays protections for Americans’ privacy being significantly stronger than they actually are,” wrote Wyden and Udall. The Senators could not state exactly what those inaccuracies are…
Category: Govt
Leahy Renews Legislative Push to Limit Surveillance Authorities & Bolster Oversight
Press release from Senator Patrick Leahy: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Monday introduced legislation that would add important reforms and improve certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and FISA Amendments Act. The FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 will bolster existing privacy safeguards and require greater oversight, transparency, and…
Filing: Gov doesn’t want challenge to surveillance
Michael Tarm of AP reports: Lawyers for a U.S. citizen charged with terrorism in Chicago said Friday in a filing that the government is purposely dodging questions about whether it used expanded secret surveillance programs against their client in a calculated bid to ensure the hotly debated practices can’t be challenged in the Supreme Court….
ICO serves Google with enforcement notice over Street View
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served Google Inc with an enforcement notice over the collection of payload data by Google’s Street View cars in the UK. Stephen Eckersley, ICO Head of Enforcement, said: “Today’s enforcement notice strengthens the action already taken by our office, placing a legal requirement on Google to delete the remaining payload data…