Dell Cameron reports: United States government records recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that state and local police authorities are continuing to trade silence for access to sophisticated phone-tracking technologies loaned out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To protect the secrets of the technology, documents show, police departments will routinely agree, if necessary, to…
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes
Sam Biddle reports: The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime — before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported pre-criminals’…
Yandex fined 2 million rubles for failing to give FSB users data
(Machine translation): MOSCOW, 19 June. /TASS/. The World Court in Moscow imposed an administrative fine on Yandex, the largest Runet site, finding it guilty of repeatedly failing to provide the FSB of Russia with information about users of the Yandex.Services service, which is necessary for searching for people or ensuring the country’s security. As TASS clarified on Monday…
EPIC Urges First Circuit to Recognize Legality of State Voter Privacy Law
From EPIC.org: EPIC submitted an amicus brief on Friday, June 16 in the case Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Bellows urging the First Circuit to reverse a district court opinion that found a Maine voter privacy law to be preempted by the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”). In the case, PILF—an organization that focuses on election integrity and has…