Lawsuit Seeks Public Disclosure of Oversight Records Amidst New Questions About Accountability San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a half-dozen other federal agencies involved in intelligence gathering, demanding the immediate release of reports about potential misconduct. EFF filed suit under the Freedom of…
Category: Surveillance
Group plans lawsuit to unveil CIA’s Pentagon Papers
The CIA and other agencies are sitting on a trove of documentary evidence of actual and suspected wrongdoing under the Bush administration, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to file a lawsuit Wednesday to force the intelligence community to come clean, the group says. At issue are the misconduct reports the spy agencies are required…
Deutsche Bank probe: four incidents
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, said a probe found four incidents of questionable investigative or surveillance activities at the company. The cases raise “legal issues” related to data protection and privacy, the Frankfurt-based bank said in an e-mailed statement today, citing a report from law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. All four incidents…
Iran implements Internet data retention law
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has implemented a law requiring the country’s Internet service providers to retain records of users’ incoming and outgoing data for at least three months, according to a Monday report by the state-run PressTV news agency. The government said the law is designed to help catch those who illegally steal others’ personal…