The Associated Press reports: The Idaho Transportation Department makes more than $5.4 million a year selling motor vehicle records and other personal information to companies that use it to research car buying patterns, send out recall notices and even track down scofflaws who don’t pay parking tickets given out by private companies. Department spokesman Jeff…
Category: Govt
National Security Wiretaps, or Just Snooping?
Philip A. Janquart reports: Aside from monitoring terror threats, the National Security Agency eavesdrops on the private communications of Americans for fun, a class says in the 6-year-old case against the federal wiretap program. The allegation appears in the latest opposition brief a class filed as the government seeks dismissal or summary judgment for the…
Feds Ordered to Disclose Data About Wiretap Backdoors
David Kravets reports: A federal judge is ordering the Justice Department to disclose more information about its so-called “Going Dark” program, an initiative to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of San Francisco concerns the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA….
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Meets After Five-Year Absence
Mark M. Jaycox writes: This week marks the first time in five years since the last Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) meeting. The board is an independent body within the President’s office that is supposed to ensure privacy and civil liberties in the creation and implementation of US law and policy and executive…