Jessica Meyers and Alex Byers report: Congress may have the NSA leaks to thank for tipping the scales on privacy legislation. Recent disclosures about government surveillance programs have reinvigorated hope for a bill that tightens personal privacy rights and torpedoed chances for another that gives more authority to law enforcement. Read more of this story…
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EPIC Files Supreme Court Petition, Challenges Domestic Surveillance Program
From EPIC: EPIC has filed a Petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court vacate an unlawful order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that enables the collection of all domestic phone record by the NSA. The order, directed to Verizon, requires the production of all “call detail records” for calls made “wholly within the United States, including…
Federal Judge Allows EFF’s NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed
A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government’s latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) long-running challenge to the government’s illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today’s ruling means the allegations at the heart of the Jewel case move forward under the supervision of a public federal court. “The court rightly found that the traditional…
Commentary: Don’t let the FBI wiretap your smartphone apps
John Backus, managing partner at New Atlantic Ventures (a venture capital firm) writes: As the White House mulls it over, quietly winding its way through the interagency review process in Washington is a nondescript proposal known as CALEA II. This dangerous proposed set of new rules, designed by the FBI, will thwart technology innovation and compromise…