Ryan Gallagher reports: If you live in Texas or Arizona, chances are a Predator drone is soaring somewhere nearby as part of border surveillance efforts. But could the controversial eyes in the sky also soon have an ear on the ground? Newly released documents, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, have revealed a series of small…
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Senator Seeks More Data Rights for Online Consumers
Natasha Singer reports: Before his planned retirement from Congress at the end of next year, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat, intends to give American consumers more meaningful control over personal data collected about them online. To that end, Mr. Rockefeller on Thursday introduced a bill called the “Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013.” The…
Ragtime: Code name of NSA’s Secret Domestic Intelligence Program Revealed in New Book
Shane Harris writes: More than a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a set of extraordinary and secretive surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency has been institutionalized, and they have grown. These special programs are conducted under the code name Ragtime, and are divided into several subcomponents, according to the new book Deep State:…
Justices Wrestle Over Allowing DNA Sampling at Time of Arrest
Adam Liptak reports on Tuesday’s oral argument in the Supreme Court in Maryland v. King, a case that deals with warrantless DNA collection from all arrestees: About halfway through a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday over whether the police may take DNA samples from people they arrest, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. reflected on just how momentous the issue…