This almost calls for animated graphics with fireworks. All right, nothing really calls for animated graphics, but this is HUGE. Kim Zetter reports: Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston…
Category: U.S.
NYPD License Plate Readers Will Be Able To Track Every Car Entering Manhattan
Matt Sledge reports: The ring of steel is expanding. New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced a “major project” at a budget hearing on Tuesday to install license plate reader cameras “in every lane of traffic on all of the bridges and tunnels that serve as entrances and exits to Manhattan.” Soon,…
Protecting email from warrantless government searches
Grits for Breakfast writes: Bully for Texas state Rep. Jon Stickland for filing a crackerjack electronic privacy bill on the last day of bill filing last week. […] Rep. Stickland’s HB 3164 (see the text) would delete all the caveats and exceptions in Texas’ statute – including the phony, outdated distinction between more recent emails and those older than 180…
U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances
Emily Flitter, Stella Dawson, and Mark Hosenball report: The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. The proposed plan represents a…