Cryptome has posted a number of compliance guides for law enforcement agents seeking customer or subscriber information from Cox, Cricket, GTE, and Yahoo!, and other providers. While some of the files may be outdated by now, the Yahoo! guide is from December 2008, and Yahoo is trying to get it removed from Cryptome’s site. Yesterday,…
Category: Surveillance
Side A: DJs Win Laptops Back
Jennifer Granick of EFF writes: Following a hearing in the San Francisco Superior Court today, DJs and party guests Justin Credible and Matthew Higgins had their illegally seized laptops returned to them. This is great news, and a real relief to the pair who have been without their machines for over a month. It started…
Judge Denies FBI Dismissal From Berkeley Raid Lawsuit
Michael Garcia reports: A federal judge denied a motion Monday to dismiss the FBI from a lawsuit filed by two Berkeley community organizations whose computers and storage devices were seized in an August 2008 raid. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled that plaintiffs Long Haul Inc. and East Bay Prisoner Support can sue the investigative…
Blog post on 8 million law enforcement requests causes online furor
Not surprisingly, Chris Soghoian’s blog post on law enforcement surveillance requests, mentioned here yesterday, has generated a huge buzz in the privacy and civil liberties communities. Chris had attended a closed door conference where members of the intelligence and law enforcement field met with those in the telecom and surveillance fields and had recorded some…