Nicole Flatow reports: A retired federal judge warned Friday against blind faith in the secret court deciding the scope of U.S. government surveillance. During a panel discussion on constitutional privacy protection in the wake of a leaked Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court decision that revealed widespread NSA data collection, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner stood up…
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Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind
Claire Cain Miller reports: In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were unconstitutional. The judges disagreed. That left Yahoo two choices: Hand over the data or break the law….
Student privacy breach makes it way to the Ninth Circuit
Jason Tecza did not give up. The former law student at University of San Francisco had sued the university pro se after his testing accommodation plan was accidentally included in materials given to a number of his peers in a course. One of the causes of action was public disclosure of private facts. Other causes of…
NSA Leaks Suggest Microsoft May Have Misled Public Over Skype Eavesdropping
Ryan Gallagher reports: …the NSA “PRISM Skype Collection” guide casts doubt on whether any Skype communications are beyond the NSA’s reach. That the NSA claims to be able to grab all Skype users’ communications also calls into question the credibility of Microsoft’s transparency report—particularly the claim that in 2012 it did not once hand over the content…