Steve Bagley reports: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Friday by an advocacy group seeking to force the government to reveal whether its clients were wiretapped during the Bush administration. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed Wilner v. National Security Agency to determine if the attorney-client privilege…
Category: Surveillance
Unconstitutionality of law on telecommunication data retention
If I’m understanding this article correctly, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has declared certain provisions of Law 298/2008 on telephone data storage unconstitutional because the law violates articles of the Romanian Constitution. The court considered the matter in a dispute between Orange Romania and the Commissariat for Civil Society (CSC). The text of the…
Activists demand privacy protections for DC One Card
Michael Neibauer reports: Privacy advocates have sounded the alarm about the District government’s effort to issue a single, traceable identification card to residents, urging the D.C. Council to adopt legislation that protects the privacy of all users. The DC One Card has been adopted by the Fenty administration as a single credential for use as…
Suit alleging wiretaps, surveillance heard–again
Mike Scarcella reports: A Latham & Watkins associate this week was back in court fighting to salvage a suit alleging the government unlawfully wiretapped and watched a man after he made a passing remark about airline security on the telephone. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit earlier this year had ruled in…