One of the many issues in the wake of NSA disclosures last week is whether large companies have been lying to consumers about the extent to which they protect our privacy. Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on that in the NY Times: “They are in a very difficult position,” said Thomas A. Sporkin, a former S.E.C….
Category: Govt
Lawsuit filed over NSA phone spying program
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A former federal prosecutor and the parents of a Navy SEAL member killed in action in Afghanistan have filed a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, Verizon, the National Security Agency (NSA) and others over the NSA domestic spying operation disclosed by The Guardian last week. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District…
In Light of NSA Revelations, Government Asks for More Time in EFF Surveillance Cases
Cindy Cohn and Mark Rumold of EFF write: In light of the confirmation of NSA surveillance of millions of Americans’ communications records, and especially the decision by the government to declassify and publicly release descriptions of the program, the government today asked the courts handling two EFF surveillance cases for some additional time to consider their options….
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
As you can imagine, I’m still getting caught up with all the NSA-related privacy and surveillance news this week. I’ll have more on that later, but it seems that the whistleblower has been identified. Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras that he is Edward Snowden: a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and…