Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh report: One of the most curious aspects of the U.S. government’s case against MegaUpload is the large number of the company’s internal communications acquired by the FBI. In one exchange, MegaUpload managers fretted via Skype IM chat in 2007 that founder Kim Dotcom wasn’t “safe with his money” and “the…
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Group Sues for Info on Government Surveillance of Wikileaks Supporters
Iulia Filip reports: A nonprofit government watchdog claims the FBI refuses to release information on “the government’s identification and surveillance of individuals who have demonstrated support for or interest in WikiLeaks.” The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and National Security Division, and the FBI, in a FOIA complaint in…
Hawaii legislators bid aloha to controversial data retention bill
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…
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…