Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: The Equality and Human Rights Commission has slammed the way the government uses and stores personal data about UK citizens. In the Protecting Information Privacy report, the Commission called the existing system “deeply flawed” and revealed Brits are not really sure what information is held about them by the government and it…
Category: Govt
NIST proposes new privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations
… The new document, Privacy Control Catalog, will become Appendix J of Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4). One of the foundational Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) documents, SP 800-53 is being updated to Revision 4 in December, 2011. SP 800-53 is also one of the…
EFF Demands Answers About Secret Surveillance Law Memo
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), demanding the release of a secret legal memo used to justify FBI access to Americans’ telephone records without any legal process or oversight. A report released last year by the DOJ’s own Inspector General revealed…
The Secret Sharer
Jane Mayer writes: On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is…