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…
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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…
… and Facebook piles on
Statement from Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot: As Mark said last week, we strongly encourage all governments to be much more transparent about all programs aimed at keeping the public safe. In the past, we have questioned the value of releasing a transparency report that, because of exactly these types of government restrictions on disclosure,…