Andrew Keshner reports: Twitter must produce tweets and user information of an Occupy Wall Street protester, a judge has ruled, discounting objections from the social media website in a case of first impression. “The Constitution gives you the right to post, but as numerous people have learned, there are still consequences for your public posts….
Category: U.S.
Why won’t the Obama administration reveal how many Americans’ emails the NSA has collected and reviewed without a warrant?
Trevor Timm writes: Since last year, a few members of Congress—led by Senator Ron Wyden—have been trying to get the Obama administration to answer a simple question: how many Americans’ phone calls or emails have been and are being collected and read without a warrant under the authority of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008…
Senate debate over cyber security bill fails to address privacy concerns
Mike Lapointe writes: Passage of the cybersecurity bill has stalled in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans show few signs of compromise over the scale of governmental provisions for infrastructural protection. But what’s most troubling about this ongoing debate has nothing to do with the extent of infrastructural protection called for by many observers. Energy…
License Plate Recognition Logs Our Lives Long Before We Sin
Jon Campbell of the L.A. Weekly has a chilling report in tomorrow’s edition on license plate readers used by California law enforcement and the “BOSS” database that is being developed. Here’s a snippet: L.A. Weekly has learned that more than two dozen law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County are using hundreds of these “automatic license…