Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
March 9th, 2015 Federal Judge Dismisses Challenge of NSA’s Internet Surveillance By: Nicholas Morales https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/jewel-v-nsa-making-sense-disappointing-decision-over-mass-surveillance https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel Last month marked a blow for plaintiffs in Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) lawsuit against…
March 5th, 2015 Future of NSA Phone Surveillance Program Remains Unclear By: Matt Daly-Grafstein http://www.newsmax.com/US/nsa-megadata-phone-records/2015/03/03/id/627966/ http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/03/clock-ticking-congress-produce-nsa-surveillance-reform/106653/ Last week the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) extended a mandate for the operation…
March 5th, 2015 To Beep or Not to Beep: The Ups and Downs of Smartphone Privacy By Eliza Cohen http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645180-smartphone-ubiquitous-addictive-and-transformative-planet-phones http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21645130-watch-out-hackersand-spooks-spy-your-pocket On February 19, the Intercept revealed that spies at…
February 27, 2015 Gemalto hacking shows that NSA and GCHQ are not shy about targeting market leaders to weaken phone encryption security https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/25/gemalto-doesnt-know-doesnt-know/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/20/gemalto_sim_surveillance_fallout/ By: Edwin Mok On…
February 26th, 2015 Do we have information privacy at the era of smartphone?" By: Ying Zhang, L.L.M http://en.miui.com/thread-67462-1-1.html In Riley v. California, the Supreme Court found that “Cell phones differ…
February 26th, 2015 Department of Justice Warrant Requirement Proposed Amendment Concerning Electronic Surveillance in Anonymous Computer Sources Raises Serious Fourth Amendment Concerns By: Breta Olsen http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/19/google_says_proposed_doj_rule_41_revision_is_monumental_fourth_amendment.html http://justsecurity.org/15018/justice-department-proposal-massive-expand-fbi-extraterritorial-surveillance/ https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/government-pursuit-less-secure-internet The DOJ…
February 26th, 2015 U.S. v. Winn By: Siyuan Wang https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1667465/sd-illinois-cellphone-20150209.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/23/court-invalidates-cell-phone-warrant-as-overbroad/ In this case, a man named Winn (the defendant) had been seen using his cell phone to photograph or…
Panel 9 February 23rd, 2015 By: Alexia J Boyarsky Proposed Congressional Reform to Government Access to Emails http://thehill.com/policy/technology/230974-leahy-lee-ready-email-privacy-bill http://ivn.us/2015/02/16/240-u-s-reps-sign-bill-protecting-private-online-communications/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/ecpa-reform-will-kill-warrantless-email-searches/ New bi-partisan Congressional bill was introduced this week, resembling a…
Major Tech Companies Take Sides in Battle Over Update To ECPA By: Matthew Shore Panel 9 Link: http://www.law360.com/articles/614439/google-others-renew-push-for-digital-privacy-law-reform From industry to civil rights groups, many sides are now lining up…
By: Rose Dorvel February 19, 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/david-carr-edward-snowden-death-interview_n_6677790.html Has media coverage of Snowden’s NSA leaks conditioned Americans to have no subjective expectation of privacy in their virtual lives? Earlier this week,…