On Thursday, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Protect America’s Privacy Act, which would reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to ensure that intelligence agencies are not using a warrantless wiretapping program to collect and store emails and phone calls of American citizens. Under amendments to FISA passed during the Bush administration, the intelligence…
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ACLU sues to stop online financial disclosure requirement for federal workers
Ann E. Marimow and Ed O’Keefe report: Thousands of high-level federal employees turned to the court system Thursday to try to block requirements that would for the first time publish their personal financial information online. The American Civil Liberties Union, in a lawsuit filed at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, called the Internet disclosure provision an…
Who Stuck the Fork(s) in the Cybersecurity Bill?
Stewart Baker asks, “who deserves the credit for killing the [cybersecurity] bill? Or the blame, if we suffer a significant attack on our civilian infrastructure before Congress returns to the issue? On the lobbying side, I’d nominate two candidates.” Stewart’s candidates? The Chamber of Commerce and …. wait for it…. privacy activists. You can read…
Nadler, Conyers Propose Critical Reforms to Cloud Computing Privacy Laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Modernization Act of 2012 in order to bring the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) up to…