Courts will determine the legality of National Security Agency surveillance programs, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Wednesday. And in his opinion, that may not be a good thing.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has released an opinion upholding the constitutionality of the phone data collection program by the National Security Agency.
FBI powers have increased so much over the past 12 years that the bureau has become a “secret domestic intelligence agency,” according to a report to be released on Tuesday…
A Pennsylvania lawyer who used a shoe-mounted video camera to film up women’s skirts has been suspended for six months, followed by three years of probation.
Facebook’s “Tag Suggest,” which uses facial-recognition technology to match faces in photos with users’ names, is being examined by the Federal Trade Commission to determine whether it violates the site’s…
What are the United States’ most privacy friendly businesses, Forbes asks? That’s difficult to define, according to the piece, but Twitter, Salesforce and AmEx get high marks.
Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, released an email by a Dickstein Shapiro lobbyist on Tuesday and proclaimed it “disturbing.”
The National Security Agency “systematically violated” a surveillance court’s privacy safeguards for almost three years in searches of phone records, according to a declassified 2009 opinion released on Tuesday.
A privacy class-action lawsuit, which argues that Google Street View violated the Wiretap Act because it collected data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, can go forward, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S.…
Confidential files produced in connection with a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America may shed new light on the extent of the organization’s sexual abuse problem.