Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Lawmakers in Hawaii on Thursday quietly dropped a bill that would have required Internet service providers to collect the detailed browsing histories of Internet users in the state and store the data for at least two years. The bill, HB 2288, would have required anyone providing access to the Internet in Hawaii…
Category: U.S.
First rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records
From The Identity Project U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has issued his first rulings inHasbrouck v. CBP, our lawsuit seeking information from and about DHS records of the travels of individual US citizens. Judge Seeborg granted some of the government’s motions for summary judgment and some of ours, ordered US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to…
EPIC Files Suit for Documents Detailing Surveillance of Wikileaks Supporters
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed suit against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information Act for documents detailing surveillance of Wikileaks supporters. After Wikileaks November 2010 publication of diplomatic cables, the U.S. government opened investigations into Wikileaks supporters and pressured many online donation systems, including Amazon and Paypal…
Department of Justice Misdirection on Cloud Computing and Privacy
Cindy Cohn and Katitza Rodriguez of EFF write: Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create a risk of US law enforcement access to people’s data? The US Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to be trying to placate international concern by saying one thing in international fora; but it says something quite…