By NICK DIVITO MANHATTAN (CN) – Since Americans expect their phone companies to keep records of their calls, they have no basis to challenge the National Security Agency’s mass collection of that data, a lawyer for the government argued Friday…. Read More ›
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Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way The NSA’s metadata trawl was approved by a judge who felt the agency was asking for ‘exceptionally broad’ permission to… Read More ›
Feds Grilled on the protocol for shutting down wireless networks in the event of a national crisis.
Feds Grilled on Network Shutdown Procedures By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A government watchdog group will get its hands on documents that map out the protocol for shutting down wireless networks in the event of a national crisis. U.S…. Read More ›
‘Black Box’ or ‘Spy Box’? US regulators want to make car data recorders mandatory
Published: 29 December, 2012, 00:18 Edited: 29 December, 2012, 00:18 US regulators want to make event data recorders (EDRs), similar to “black boxes” used on planes, mandatory on all cars produced from September 2014. The move has sparked a… Read More ›
Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don’t Know About
October 22, 2012 | By Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm On Friday, EFF and the ACLU submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Rigmaiden, a closely-followed case that has enormous consequences for individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights in their home… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 