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Tech industry supports US federal privacy legislation, so long as it gets to...
In the US, the technology industry is bifurcated: On one side, the companies with the business model of surveilling their users and packaging that personal information to sell and deliver advertising;...
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California Consumer Privacy Act
On 28 June 2018, the California legislature passed — and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). That’s the good news. The bad news is that the law, even...
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US Supreme Court rules that cell tower records require warrant
In a 5–4 decision (.pdf; 508KB) — with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the so-called “liberal” arm of the court — the US Supreme Court has ruled that government authorities must obtain a...
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US Congress interprets Fourth Amendment as damage and routes around it
On 11 January 2018, the US House of Representatives voted 256–164 to extend the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless surveillance program, commonly known as Section 702 of the Foreign...
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The Equifax breach and its bumbled response
On 7 September 2017, Equifax — one of the three dominant consumer credit reporting agencies in the US — quietly announced that hackers had infiltrated its systems and potentially compromised personally...
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NSA ends some domestic warrantless surveillance
On 28 April 2017, the US National Security Agency (NSA) published a statement indicating that it had ceased warrantless surveillance of Americans’ electronic communications with people outside the US,...
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US Republicans roll-back FCC internet privacy rules
On 28 March 2017, the US House of Representatives voted to eliminate internet service provider (ISP) privacy rules instituted last year by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC rules...
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FBI still using NSLs to obtain out-of-scope information
Among the cache of classified and unclassified documents recently obtained and disclosed by the Intercept, was the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) rules for working with national security...
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Saint Paul’s new recycling carts have embedded RFID chips
Saint Paul has been at odds with me for the past several years. First it was public money to fund a new ball park for the bush league Saint Paul Saints (Mike Veeck remains special advisor to the chair...
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US Senate declines to vote on proposals to block Rule 41
US Senator Ron Wyden (D‑Oregon) fought hard to get his colleagues to vote to block changes to Rule 41: “By sitting here and doing nothing, the Senate has given consent to this expansion of government...
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Yahoo reportedly built email surveillance software for US government
Early this week, Joseph Menn writing for Reuters broke a story reporting that in 2015, Yahoo built a secret “custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific...
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Washington Post calls for prosecution of its most important source
This week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch launched the pardonsnowden.org website to urge President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before...
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Classified surveillance rules for journalist targets
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a set of classified rules that allow its agents to obtain the telephone records of journalists without a probable-cause warrant. Rather than a warrant —...
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Yahoo first to publish national security letters
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been issuing national security letters (NSL) for probably longer than any of us know. First approved by Congress in the 1980s to facilitate warrantless...
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Spooks and other criminals alter normal internet use
Almost one-half of all internet users in the US report behavior changes — including not making online purchases or conducting financial transactions, not expressing opinions, and not participating in...
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FBI wants biometric database exempted from Privacy Act
For the last eight years, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been quietly building a sprawling biometric database it calls the Next Generation Identification System (NGIS). The NGIS...
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Supreme Court approves procedural rule change to allow governmental hacking
The US Supreme Court recently passed a proposed change (.pdf; 34KB) to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, making it significantly easier for law enforcement agencies to remotely hack...
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US District Court reverses self, finds NSLs constitutional
In March 2013, US District Court Judge Susan Illston ruled that the US government’s use of national security letters (NSL) was unconstitutional, ordering the government to cease issuing them and stop...
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FISC rules FBI can use intelligence databases for crime information not...
In November 2015, Thomas F. Hogan, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ruled that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was legally permitted to search...
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EFF sues for access to FISC documents declassified by USA FREEDOM Act
One of the things that was supposed to happen when President Barack Obama signed the USA FREEDOM Act into law in June 2015 was that “significant” decisions from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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