Simmons, Joshua L., Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’ (September 19, 2009). Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 3, p. 950. The full-text article is available as a free download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1475524 Abstract: Your information is for sale, and the government is buying it at alarming…
Category: Govt
Another TSA redaction error involving sensitive information
From Cryptome.org: The USA Merit Systems Protection Board published an online Opinion and Order which involved a TSA employee. A footnote states: *The original unexpurgated version of this Opinion and Order contains Sensitive Security Information (SSI) protected by 49 C.F.R. Parts 15 and 1520. Per agreement between the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Transportation…
2nd Circuit Rejects Lawyers’ Petition for Records of Intercepted Calls
Mark Hamblett reports: The refusal of the National Security Agency to disclose whether conversations between lawyers and their clients at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility were intercepted has been upheld by a federal appeals court in Manhattan. Addressing questions of first impression, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday adopted a doctrine holding…
The Fallout From SD-1544-09-06 : The Feds At My Door
Steven Frischling, the blogger at Flying With Fish reports that he was visited by federal agents because he had posted the full TSA security directive referenced in