Joe Rubino reports: Boulder residents who intentionally leave their doors open, may unintentionally be inviting a Boulder police officer in for a visit. Chrissy Smiley learned this fact in surprising fashion on Thursday afternoon when she returned to her south Boulder condo after a 40-minute walk with her dogs to find a card from a…
Category: U.S.
EPIC Calls on FCC to Investigate Unlawful Disclosure of Consumer Phone Records
From EPIC.org: In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, EPIC urged the FCC to determine whether Verizon violated the Communications Act when it released consumer call detail information to the National Security Agency. In response to an unprecedented Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order which focused on solely domestic communications, Verizon released telephone customer information to the…
Woo hoo! Great win for EFF and transparency.
BREAKING: FISA court rejects Justice Dept’s catch-22 secrecy argument, @eff‘s case will proceed eff.org/r.5bT8 — EFF (@EFF) June 12, 2013 Read the order here: https://www.eff.org/file/37155#page/1/mode/1up
Obama administration convinced EU to drop measure that would have blocked NSA spying
Max Fisher reports: Senior officials in the Obama administration successfully lobbied the European Union’s executive body to drop an “anti-FISA clause” from its privacy legislation over a year ago, the Financial Times reports. That measure, if adopted, could have blocked the U.S. requests for European citizens’ computer and telephone data that are made as part of…