One of the many issues in the wake of NSA disclosures last week is whether large companies have been lying to consumers about the extent to which they protect our privacy. Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on that in the NY Times: “They are in a very difficult position,” said Thomas A. Sporkin, a former S.E.C….
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86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
Rainey Reitman of EFF writes: Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union – are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations about unchecked domestic surveillance. In an open letter to lawmakers…
Lawsuit filed over NSA phone spying program
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A former federal prosecutor and the parents of a Navy SEAL member killed in action in Afghanistan have filed a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, Verizon, the National Security Agency (NSA) and others over the NSA domestic spying operation disclosed by The Guardian last week. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District…
British government faces questions over PRISM cyber-snooping
Sarah Young reports: Britain must say if its spies acted illegally after revelations that they received data collected secretly by the United States from the the world’s biggest Internet companies, members of parliament said on Monday. The Guardian newspaper has suggested that the United States may have handed over information on Britons gathered under a…