Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 18-2 in favor of a controversial information-sharing bill that was reintroduced in Congress this February after failing last year amid widespread protests from rights group and a White House veto threat. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) next goes to the full…
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New Documents Suggest IRS Reads Emails Without a Warrant
Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU writes: Everyone knows the IRS is our nation’s tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws. New documents released to the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the IRS Criminal Tax Division has long taken…
SEC and CFTC Will Now Enforce Identify Theft ‘Red Flag’ Rules
Joe Mont reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted rules requiring broker-dealers, mutual funds, investment advisers and other “financial institutions” and “creditors” to adopt programs for detecting and responding to cases of identity theft. The rules, adopted jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also apply to the futures commission merchants, retail foreign…
ATF Seeks ‘Massive’ Database of Personal Info: ‘Assets, Relatives, Associates and More’
Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. A recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reveals that the agency is seeking a “massive” online database capable of pulling up individuals’ personal information, connections and associates. On March 28, ATF posted the notice on FedBizOpps.gov, entitled “Investigative System.” The solicitation was updated on April 5 with a few…