This morning’s hearing of the House Judiciary Committee begins at 10 am ET and will be webcast. Witness List: Elana Tyrangiel Department of Justice Richard Littlehale Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Orin Kerr George Washington University Law School Richard P. Salgado Google, Inc. Post corrected.
Category: Govt
Justice Department bends on (some) e-mail privacy fixes
Declan McCullagh reports: The Obama administration has dropped its insistence that police should be able to warrantlessly peruse Americans’ e-mail correspondence. But at the same time, the Justice Department is advancing new proposals that would expand government surveillance powers over e-mail messages, Twitter direct messages, and Facebook direct messages in other ways. Read more on CNET.
EPIC Highlights Need for Broad Reform of Federal Privacy Law
From EPIC: In response to a request from the House Judiciary Committee, EPIC has recommended a comprehensive review of the federal communications privacy law. Congress will begin hearings this week on ECPA Part 1: Lawful Access to Stored Content. EPIC’s letter to the Committee noted the recent settlement by the state Attorneys General with Google in the Street View matter and…
The Internet is a surveillance state
Bruce Schneier writes: … The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us…