Marc Zwillinger writes: Occasionally, a mainstream press story gets enough attention to shine a brighter light on the privacy issues that we at ZwillGen deal with every day. This happened when General Wesley Clark’s cell phone records were obtained, which led to a Congressional Investigation and an eventual overhaul of the FCC’s CPNI rules –…
Category: U.S.
No one’s safe from unfettered domestic surveillance. No one.
As a privacy advocate, you might have expected me to blog about the Broadwell-Petraeus-Kelley-Allen scandal, with emphasis on the federal govt’s ability or legal authority to snoop through the records of people who seemingly have committed no crime. So how did the FBI get authorization to snoop? Well, it turns out that they really didn’t…
Prostitute patrons can’t hide their faces anymore
An anonymous reader emailed me a link to an Associated Press story by Larry Neumeister that appeared last month. It relates to a case I’ve mentioned previously on this blog. Gone are the days of the nameless, faceless “john.” Men who buy sex are now likely to end up with their faces splashed across the…
National Security Wiretaps, or Just Snooping?
Philip A. Janquart reports: Aside from monitoring terror threats, the National Security Agency eavesdrops on the private communications of Americans for fun, a class says in the 6-year-old case against the federal wiretap program. The allegation appears in the latest opposition brief a class filed as the government seeks dismissal or summary judgment for the…