Reuters reports: The Swiss government will probably have to turn to parliament to resolve a legal impasse threatening a deal struck with the U.S. to hand over data from UBS clients, a minister was quoted as saying. The Swiss government had raised the option of parliament retroactively approving the deal, involving UBS clients suspected of…
Category: Surveillance
EU lawmakers reject bank data deal with US
Aoife White of the Associated Press reports: The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers, allegedly to track funds supporting terror groups. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament’s president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly…
AU: Google baulks at Conroy’s call to censor YouTube
Asher Moses reports: Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally….
Appeals Court Backs EFF Push for Telecom Lobbying Documents Disclosure
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides this press release following yesterday’s ruling by the Ninth Circuit: Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of “lobbyist privacy” to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans….