Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima report on more function creep: Thirty-seven states now use facial-recognition technology in their driver’s-license registries, a Washington Post review found. At least 26 of those allow state, local or federal law enforcement agencies to search — or request searches — of photo databases in an attempt to learn the identities…
Category: U.S.
PRISM, and MAINWAY, and MARINA – and what else didn’t we know about?
If you read only one article today, read Barton Gellman’s article in the Washington Post, “U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata.” As I read it, I found myself wondering, “How many members of Congress really knew/know about these programs – and of them, how many understood the programs?” Did Congress totally…
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
Declan McCullagh reports: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone…
Secret to PRISM program: Even bigger data seizure
Stephen Braun, Anne Flaherty, Jack Gillum and Matt Apuzzo report: In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies and eavesdroppers were tracking the email and Internet addresses used by suspected…