Jaikumar Vijayan reports on oral argument in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday: Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected and maintained by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans….
Category: Govt
Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists – Senate report reveals uselessness of fusion centers for fighting terrorism
Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo of Associated Press reports: A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuableintelligence on terrorism, a Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort that ballooned far beyond anyone’s ability to control. What began as an attempt to put local,…
SCOTUS considers whether federal government can be sued for FCRA violations
Jesse J. Holland of Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pondered whether it should allow the federal government to face millions of dollars in class-action lawsuits for violating identity theft protection laws that ban the printing of credit card numbers and expiration dates on receipts. Government lawyers argue that the United States is…
Agencies Properly Withheld Social Networking Info – Court
Nick McCain reports on a ruling in the Electronic Frontier Foundation v. Department of Defense: A federal judge ruled mostly in favor of government agencies in a Freedom of Information action where privacy advocates sought documents related to law enforcement’s use of social networking websites in criminal investigations. The judge ordered the FBI and ICE…