From Slashdot: Twitter’s second transparency report reinforces what many already know: governments want online user data, and to yank select content from the Internet. “It is vital for us (and other Internet services) to be transparent about government requests for user information and government requests to withhold content from the…
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From WashingtonPost: The Justice Department has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to lengthen the period of time they retain information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism. Senior U.S. officials familiar with the guidelines said the changes allow the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence…
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From WSJ: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann. Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of San Francisco conference called “Big Brother in the 21st Century” on…
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