David L. Sobel comments: The Obama Administration today issued its long-awaited Open Government Directive (OGD), a blueprint for transparency that the President promised on January 21, his first full day in office. The OGD is “intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration”…
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Red Flags rule doesn’t wave for non-financial entities
Bret Cohen writes: On December 1, Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion in a lawsuit by the American Bar Association against the Federal Trade Commission, explaining his October 29 ruling from the bench that the FTC’s Red Flags Rule does not apply to lawyers. Holding…
Feds Challenged in Bid to Dismiss Wiretapping Suit
Annie Youderian reports that plaintiffs in a case challenging NSA’s wiretapping program have filed a response to the government’s motion to dismiss the case on “state secrets” and “national security” grounds. The case is Shubert v. Obama and Judge Vaughn Walker is the presiding judge. The plaintiffs’ 24-page response can be found here (pdf). A…
Cryptome posts more LEA guides, Wikileaks joins the fray
Cryptome.org has added more materials to its site on the policies and manuals for law enforcement agents seeking customer or subscriber data. Last week, it posted guides for Cox, SBC-Ameritech, Cingular, Cricket, Nextel, GTE, and PacTel. Newly added to the collection of compliance guides are: Sprint’s Corporate Security Electronic Surveillance Manual (.zip), dated November 2002,…