surveillance

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

March 15, 2012 23:24

The National Security Agency's immensely secret project in the Utah desert will intercept, analyze, and store yottabytes of the world’s communications—including yours.Photo: Name withheld The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray...

Congress Questions Federal E-mail Surveillance Policies

Lindsey Williams
March 06, 2012 22:24

Yesterday, Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa released a letter asking the Obama Administration for assistance in assessing the e-mail monitoring policies of all federal agencies. This letter was sent in light of Congressional and Office of Special Counsel investigations into...

A Crash Course on Education Privacy

Greg Jacobs
March 01, 2012 17:23

This post was written by Jason H. Ballum, Mark Melodia, Amy S. Mushahwar, and Frederick Lah. With March Madness on the horizon, did you know that educational institutions are part of another Final Four? One in four data breaches come from higher educational institutions or K-12 schools. In...

Self-service search warrants after Damache v. DPP

February 24, 2012 15:12

A peculiar feature of Irish law for many outside observers is the fact that search warrants are treated as being an executive rather than judicial function (PDF, ch.4). As a result a number of statutes give police the power to themselves issue such warrants on a "self-service" basis. Yesterday's...

Checking the PULSE

February 23, 2012 20:46

We've known for some time now that there's been significant abuse of the Garda PULSE database - whether this takes the form of gardaí checking up on daughters' boyfriends or more seriously information being sold to armed robbers. This abuse was one of the factors which led the Data Protection...