American Spies - Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, And What to Do About It
US intelligence agencies - the eponymous American spies - are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and politi…
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Email Privacy Act has another run at becoming law
"As the ACLU argues in a letter, the existing law essentially violates the fourth amendment, protecting citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. R…
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U.S. House Passes Bill Requiring Warrants to Search Old Emails
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at Google (GOOG, +0.47%), said in a statement the measure would "fix a constitu…
It's Too Complicated: How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law
For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States has drawn a strong distinction between the protections afforded to communications &q…
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Area law enforcement moving to deploy body cameras
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, pointed out that the police chief has the authority to bar an officer from viewing a recording, particularly if it inclu…
Illinois Issues: Hackers Expose Cybersecurity Holes In The State
"That inability to address growing cyber risk is part of what makes state and local governments easy targets for hackers, says Brian Nussbaum, a professor…
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Alert: Sunrise Coming in May for New Privacy Law, Enforcer in Japan
"Woodrow Hartzog, Starnes Professor of Law at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, told Bloomberg BNA that the amended act “makes some very…
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Cybersecurity researchers halt work with law enforcement, cancel conferences in travel ban's wake
"University of Washington robotics law expert Ryan Calo said via email that while Homeland Security has “amazing and dedicated" people, “I'm not g…
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Encryption for All: Why This American Tradition Must Be Upheld
"While many proponents of backdoors say that they are vital to intelligence gathering processes, privacy advocates like King believe that the very premise…
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Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Needs to Get Tech—These Cases Show Why
"Now the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments in this case in February, must decide whether constitutional rights apply across US borders. That’s where…
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Gorsuch Might Play Key Role In Cell Phone Privacy Issues If Confirmed To The Supreme Court
"“We will see technical assistance to decrypt communications or facilitate access find its way to the court,” Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at Sta…
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Wiretap Reports Not So Transparent
I have been writing for some time about the huge discrepancy between the number of wiretaps reported annually by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts…