When Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian published a FISC order requiring Verizon to turn over to the NSA its call records for calls made both within the US and between the US and other countries, I don’t think anyone at the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference was particularly shocked that this was going on. If anything, we were…
Category: U.S.
Massachusetts Jury Finds Violation of Stored Communications Act and Massachusetts Privacy Laws
Amy Crafts writes: In January 2011, David Cheng (Plaintiff) filed a lawsuit against his former co-worker and fellow radiologist, Laura Romo (Defendant), alleging a violation of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and Massachusetts privacy law. After the U.S District Court of Massachusetts denied Defendant’s motion for summary judgment on both counts, the case went to…
Watchdog Agency Could Keep NSA In Check, Once It Gets Going
Returning home after PLSC and all the news about NSA leaks, I tweeted, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, “So what’s the and Civil Liberties Oversight Board doing this week?” I didn’t know that they were already on it. Martin Kaste of NPR had reported: …. In 2004, [Congress] created the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, but it’s taken…
Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
Kim Zetter got a great scoop today: Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer court-ordered data to the government, a company spokesman says, refuting with some finality one of the lingering theories about the NSA’s PRISM program. Instead the company transmits FISA…