Pete Yost of Associated Press reports: A Senate Intelligence Committee Democrat on Monday blocked a five-year extension of a surveillance law used by the Obama administration to intercept the communications of terrorist suspects overseas. The move is the latest by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon to address concerns that the government may be reviewing the…
Category: Laws
AU: Olympian’s photos of sex with wife stolen by staff at computer shop
Normally, I would just sigh and think, “Here we go again,” but it was the second paragraph of a news story on news.com.au that caught my eye: Intimate photographs of an Australian Olympian having sex with his wife were stolen by staff at a Sydney computer shop after the prominent star brought his machine in…
Senate: Drones Need to Operate “Freely and Routinely” In U.S.
Steven Aftergood writes: The integration of drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) needs to be expedited, the Senate Armed Services Committee said in its report on the FY2013 defense authorization bill last week. “While progress has been made in the last 5 years, the pace of development must be accelerated; greater…
Privacy law rots from the head
Stewart Baker writes: Privacy kills. Fish, this time. The main difference between US and European data protection law is this: in the United States, laws are usually written to solve a particular privacy problem, whereas in Europe all personal data is broadly protected by a set of grand principles. Both privacy regimes produce plenty of…