Alan Charles Raul is a a lawyer in Washington, and was vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008. He wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post that begins: Assuming the executive branch is still fighting terrorists as fiercely as necessary to protect Americans, the need for oversight on…
Category: Govt
House passes bill excluding some businesses from Red Flag Rules
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3763, a bill that amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for certain businesses. As passed by the House, the following would not be considered “creditors” under the new Red Flag Rules: a health care practice with 20 or fewer employees…
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
Noah Shachtman reports: America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s…
Supreme Court gets involved in petition signers’ privacy case
The SCOTUS Blog updates us on the release of the names of petition signers concerning R71 (Protect Marriage Washington) in Washington State: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy temporarily restored the order protecting the privacy of signers of the petition seeking a voter referendum on a gay rights law in Washington State. His temporary order is here. …