I noted yesterday that both the ACLU and EFF had found that the revised cybersecurity bill, S. 3414, contained improved protections. Jennifer Granick of CIS points out what protections or clarifications are still missing. The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It’s provisions expand the government’s ability to conduct network surveillance…
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Twitter Appeals Order That It Turn Over Protester’s Posts
Yay, Twitter! Tiffany Kary reports: Twitter Inc. is appealing a judge’s order to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester’s posts, saying it’s committed to “fighting for our users.” A notice of appeal was filed in New York criminal court July 17, seeking to overturn a June 30 decision by State Supreme Court…
EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit
Matt Zimmerman writes: Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private customer information were sought…
Article: The Fourth Amendment in a World Without Privacy
Omer Tene points us to an article by Paul Ohm, “The Fourth Amendment in a World Without Privacy.” The article was published in Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 81, No. 5, p. 1309, 2012. Here’s the Abstract: This Article explores the relationship between private and public surveillance. Every year, companies spend millions of dollars developing new…