Paulina Villegas reports: For many people, February is a month to celebrate love, with couples giving each other flowers, chocolates and stuffed animals. But several police departments are encouraging people to reject romantic tradition and instead turn their exes in this Valentine’s Day. If a former flame wronged you and they happen to have outstanding…
Category: Govt
Feds declined offer from privacy commissioner for advice on collection of phone data
Marie Woolf reports: The federal privacy commissioner says his offer to advise the government on the implications of collecting data from millions of mobile phones during the COVID-19 pandemic was rebuffed. Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee this week that he offered to review how the data was being anonymized, but the government…
Not another no-fly list
Ed Hasbrouck writes: In a letter first reported by Reuters and first published in full by The Points Guy, CEO Edward Bastian of Delta Air Lines has called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to “support our efforts with respect to… putting any person convicted of an on-board disruption on a national, comprehensive,… ‘no-fly’ list that would bar that person from…
Wyden and Heinrich: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal Previously Secret CIA Bulk Collection, Problems With CIA Handling of Americans’ Information
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for new transparency about bulk surveillance conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, following the release of documents that revealed a secret bulk collection program and problems with how the agency searches and handles Americans’ information. Wyden and…