Now what did Candidate Obama pledge about transparency? Adam Klasfeld reports: The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously…
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Judge Rules Feds Can Have WikiLeaks Associates’ Twitter Data (updated)
Kevin Poulsen reports the expected, but bad nevertheless, news: The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court battle over online privacy and free…
Updated European law will close Patriot Act data access loophole
Zack Whittaker reports: European lawmakers have been revising and updating the data protection laws that apply to all 27 European member states, after it was discovered that the United States can use the Patriot Act to access European citizens’ data without their consent. The European Commission’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding met with German Consumer Protection…
More reactions to this morning’s oral argument at SCOTUS
Another helpful write-up on oral argument this morning in United States v. Jones – this one by Kashmir Hill of Forbes, who starts her piece: The Supreme Court justices were decked out in their usual black robes today for a case involving the question of whether police need to get a warrant in order to…