EPIC.org writes: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board released its report on Executive Order 12333, which provides broad legal authority for data collection. The Oversight Board conducted three deep-dives into 12333-related counterterrorism activities—two on classified CIA programs and one on NSA’s XKEYSCORE. XKEYSCORE is a tool used to search data collected under Executive Order 12333 that was revealed by…
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LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE
Sam Biddle reports: The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with The Intercept. The deal is already drawing fire from critics and comes less than two years after the company downplayed its ties to ICE, claiming…
Judge orders college to turn over report on 2017 rape
Julie Manganis reports: BEVERLY — A Lawrence Superior Court judge has ordered that a lawyer hired by Endicott College to investigate a 2017 sexual assault on campus must turn over her report and other materials to the attorney representing the victim in that case. In a decision Monday, Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman found that federal student…
Colorado Introduces a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bill
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: Colorado recently become the latest state to consider a comprehensive consumer privacy law. On March 19, 2021, Colorado State Senators Rodriguez and Lundeen introduced SB 21-190, entitled “an Act Concerning additional protection of data relating to personal privacy”. Following California’s bold example of the California Consumer Privacy…