John Ribeiro reports: Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron…
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Rep sparks confusion over claim NSA can wiretap without warrant
Because I noted Rep. Nadler’s comments on getting a different story in a classified briefing than what Director Mueller testified to last week, I thought it important to note this follow-up: A Capitol Hill lawmaker sparked a string of conflicting statements about the limits of U.S. surveillance after claiming during a hearing last week that…
State photo-ID databases become troves for police
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…
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…