It’s been a lousy week so far for opponents of U.S. spy tactics: a federal judge shut down a long-running challenge to the NSA’s mass collection of customer internet data, while President Obama brushed off… Read more »
The draft proposal would make data retention laws taboo. As with the earlier anti-surveillance resolution it builds upon, this one comes from Brazil and Germany. Read more »
Human rights groups including Privacy International and Amnesty International have seized on information, submitted in a tribunal case they initiated after the Snowden leaks, that contradicts previous assurances given by the… Read more »
As revealed in a Guardian investigation, carriers EE, Vodafone and Three are going beyond the terms of the U.K.’s data retention laws to make it even easier for the authorities to… Read more »
Microsoft Azure now provides a speech-recognition service for audio-visual content that indexes the files based on what’s actually said in them. This could automate the searchability, categorization and description of content… Read more »
Revealed in a Monday article in The Intercept, the ICREACH tool appears to be a way of sharing surveillance data — likely covering the lives of many Americans — with domestic… Read more »
Though no names were named, a report from the United Nations human rights chief has stressed that mass surveillance clashes with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — and… Read more »
The debate surrounding 3D printing is forcing legislators and regulators to rethink a broad range of legal issues, from patents to copyrights to liability. Read more »
Barack Obama will announce on Friday that he intends to take telephony metadata out of the hands of the National Security Agency, according to a Reuters report about a scheduled speech… Read more »
We’ve long known that the U.S. government’s explanation that it only collected “metadata” related to the phone numbers it has been hoovering up over the last several years was a poor… Read more »