Robin Wauters writes: In what seems to have garnered precious little attention, Sweden’s data protection agency earlier this week ruled to (again) disallow an agreement between a tiny municipality and Google for the use of cloud services, such as Google Apps, within the public body. The Swedish data regulator had requested changes in the agreement between Google and the…
Category: Govt
EPIC Calls on FCC to Investigate Unlawful Disclosure of Consumer Phone Records
From EPIC.org: In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, EPIC urged the FCC to determine whether Verizon violated the Communications Act when it released consumer call detail information to the National Security Agency. In response to an unprecedented Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order which focused on solely domestic communications, Verizon released telephone customer information to the…
Watchdog Agency Could Keep NSA In Check, Once It Gets Going
Returning home after PLSC and all the news about NSA leaks, I tweeted, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, “So what’s the and Civil Liberties Oversight Board doing this week?” I didn’t know that they were already on it. Martin Kaste of NPR had reported: …. In 2004, [Congress] created the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, but it’s taken…
Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
Kim Zetter got a great scoop today: Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer court-ordered data to the government, a company spokesman says, refuting with some finality one of the lingering theories about the NSA’s PRISM program. Instead the company transmits FISA…