Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has an article on how Obama’s administration is following in the same secretive and civil liberties-busting footsteps of the Bush administration: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans’ phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any…
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Microsoft Seeks New Legal Framework For Cloud
J. Nicholas Hoover reports: Microsoft is asking Congress to pass new legislation to regulate cloud computing, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel, announced Wednesday in an address at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Specifically, Microsoft is proposing what it calls the Cloud Computing Advancement Act, which would make changes to three major areas of…
EFF Plans Appeal of Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails. “We’re deeply disappointed in the judge’s ruling,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “This ruling robs innocent telecom…
ME: Surveillance sets off civil liberty alarms
The Associated Press reports: Privacy advocates are criticizing a new surveillance system used by South Portland police that reads license plates, a system police defend as a tool to help solve crimes, find wanted individuals, and locate missing people. [S]tate Senator Dennis Damon, a Trenton Democrat, said he is concerned that the system could be…