Back in December, I posted a link to a news story about a lawyer in Ohio who sued a web site that was charging people to remove their mug shots from the web site. At the time, I wrote: I don’t know if this is the first lawsuit of its kind, but I’m surprised I…
Category: U.S.
Senators Wyden and Udall ask General Alexander to correct significant inaccuracies in “fact sheet”
Today, Senators Wyden and Udall wrote to General Alexander requesting corrections in a recent NSA fact sheet on surveillance authorities. “In our judgement this inaccuracy is significant, as it portrays protections for Americans’ privacy being significantly stronger than they actually are,” wrote Wyden and Udall. The Senators could not state exactly what those inaccuracies are…
Reassured by NSA’s Internal Procedures? Don’t Be. They Still Don’t Tell the Whole Story.
Although Stewart Baker, former General Counsel at NSA, finds NSA’s minimization procedures, leaked by Edward Snowden, “broadly reassuring,” not everyone agrees. Kurt Opsahl and Mark Rumold of EFF write that not only do these guidelines fail to adequately protect Americans, but they violate the Fourth Amendment and may be the very same minimization guidelines that…
U.S. charges Snowden with espionage (UPDATED)
Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz report: Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials. Snowden was…