Babak Siavoshy writes: As the Washington Post reports, one of the legal obstacles the ACLU may face in its lawsuit challenging NSA surveillance of telephony metadata is the state secrets privilege. In recent years, the government has used the state secrets privilege with increasing frequency to block lawsuits and prevent discovery on national security grounds. According to Professor Donohue, between 2001…
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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests
Ted Ullyot, Facebook General Counsel, writes: … Since this story was first reported, we’ve been in discussions with U.S. national security authorities urging them to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to comply with. We’re pleased that as a result of our discussions, we can now include in a…
PRISM: Solving for X
With the assistance of semipr0 for the graphics, Ashkan Soltani has come up with a description of how PRISM might work. It’s well worth reading.
Yeah, right.
The government assures us that it does not maintain a database of incidentally collected information from non-targeted United States persons, and there is no evidence to the contrary. From United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review No. 08-01 IN RE: DIRECTIVES [redacted text]* August 22, 2008 So what’s the government’s explanation now? That they…