Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge ruled has ruled that government spying on a charity called Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated federal laws on domestic surveillance. The government admittedly relied on the surveillance of phone conversations between two of the non-profit’s lawyers and an Al-Haramain director in Saudi Arabia when it designated the group as a…
Category: Govt
Obama faces major online privacy test
Declan McCullagh reports: When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he promised (PDF) that as president, he would “strengthen privacy protections for the digital age.” Whether his administration supports a new privacy proposal released by a coalition including Google, eBay, Microsoft, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform will put Obama’s…
Following EPIC FOIA Request, Homeland Security Releases Privacy Study of Cybersecurity Project
From EPIC.org: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office has released an unclassified version of the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the Initiative Three Exercise, a pilot exercise for the classified cybersecurity tool known as “EINSTEIN 3.” EINSTEIN 3 is the next generation of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s intrusion detection and prevention…
Announcing a Meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board
[Federal Register: March 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 53)] [Notices] [Page 13258-13259] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr19mr10-43] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcing a Meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce. ACTION: Notice. ———————————————————————– SUMMARY: Pursuant…