When Joe Cadillic sent me a link to this article, the headline sounded so far-fetched that I figured it was some wild conspiracy theory. But it turns out it’s not. Juliana DeVries reports that people are being prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for destroying evidence – including browser history – even if they were unaware…
Category: Online
Political deleted-tweet archive shuttered by Twitter over “privacy expectation”
Sam Machkovech reports: The Politwoops website, which launched in 2012 to keep tabs on tweets deleted by known politicians, saw its feed dry up in the middle of May with no announcement. After Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter began investigating the story this week, he got the answer that Politwoops’ founders, the “government transparency” non-profit Sunlight Foundation, hadn’t: Twitter itself revoked the site’s…
EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Rule that Use of NSA’s Warrantless Surveillance in a Criminal Case Is Unconstitutional
Andrew Crocker writes: With the passage of the USA Freedom Act, we’ve gained important reforms of the intelligence community, but there’s still a lot to do, including reining in the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of Americans’ Internet communications under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). That’s why EFF yesterday filed an amicus brief along with the…
Websurfing and the Wiretap Act
Orin Kerr writes: The federal Wiretap Act is the major privacy law that protects privacy in communications. […] In this post, I want to focus on a particularly tricky and important application of the problem that is raised in a case now pending in the Third Circuit: How does the Wiretap Act apply to surveillance of…