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The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to abandon its case against Microsoft over international data privacy. A new law signed by President Donald Trump last week answers the legal question at the heart of MicrosoftA s case, the DOJ says.
San Francisco, April 1 - The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to abandon its case against Microsoft over international data privacy after a law was signed to legally collect the data stored on foreign soil. The DoJ, in a court filing posted late on Saturday, said the new law signed by President Donald Trump last week answered the legal question at the heart of Microsoft's case.
An anonymous reader quotes CNN: The U.S. Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to abandon its case against Microsoft over international data privacy . A new law signed by President Donald Trump last week answers the legal question at the heart of Microsoft's case, the DOJ says.
Police in other countries will be able to get emails and other electronic communication more easily from their own citizens and from Americans under a bill that Congress stuffed inside the massive $1.3 trillion spending deal passed this week. Supporters say the bill, dubbed the CLOUD Act, will simplify the process for the U.S. government and its allies to get evidence of serious crimes and terrorist threats when that evidence is stored on a server in another country.
The Republican chairman and top Democrat of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Thursday they will in the coming days formally ask Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to testify, saying the company has left many questions unanswered about its data privacy practices. "The latest revelations regarding Facebook's use and security of user data raises many serious consumer protection concerns," Committee Chairman Greg Walden and Frank Pallone, its top Democrat, said in a statement.
In this day and age, it is close to impossible for anyone to get through life without using the internet. That reality is even more true here in Alaska, where larger distances separate us and we have less infrastructure to connect us.
The US Supreme Court has turned its attention to the dispute between Microsoft and the Department of Justice over privacy rights. Nine judges are set to hear arguments today from both parties over the DoJ's attempts to force Microsoft to hand over personal data held on servers in Ireland.
Senators voted 37-0 on Friday in ... - Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who recently was attacked by a neighbor while working on his lawn, said he believes the anger and polarization around the country fueled the assault. "With the whole idea of the country being angry, over your yard or even the guy that shot us in the ball field There's just some people so angry," said the senator, who was on a baseball field over the summer when a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise, R-LA, and three others.
In a victory for privacy rights at the border, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today ruled that forensic searches of electronic devices carried out by border agents without any suspicion that the traveler has committed a crime violate the U.S. Constitution. The ruling in U.S. v.
Digital technology expert Reynaldo Lugtu, member of the Advisory Board of Global Chamber Manila, said the Philippines ranked tenth as most "cyber attacked" countries in the world and the most attacked among countries in Southeast Asia. Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed that the Philippines is the tenth most attacked country worldwide in the internet.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency's warrantless internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy advocates and confusion prompted by morning tweets from President Donald Trump that initially questioned the spying tool. The legislation, which passed 256-164 and split party lines, is the culmination of a yearslong debate in Congress on the proper scope of U.S. intelligence collection - one fueled by the 2013 disclosures of classified surveillance secrets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
When Terrence Byrd was stopped by police in 2014 for a minor traffic infraction, he couldn't have expected that his case would eventually come before the Supreme Court. In the heat of the moment, he had to deal with the fact that he was the unauthorized driver of a rental car.
Equifax is not off the hook for its massive 2017 data breach, lawmakers told FOX Business, despite a noticeable lack of progress on new legislation. Lawmakers conducted a series of hearings on Capitol Hill throughout the final months of 2017, which featured former Equifax CEO Richard Smith and Interim CEO Paulino do Rego Barros Jr., as well as a slew of expert witnesses.
EPIC , a nonprofit privacy rights group, is "not a voter" and doesn't represent voters, U.S. District Judge Stephen Williams ruled, adding that the organization suffered no damages from the commission's attempt to collect voter data. The president launched the panel earlier this year to investigate and fix what he claimed was massive voter fraud in the 2016 election.
A woman votes at a polling station inside a coffee shop in Los Angeles, March 7, 2017. The California secretary of state was among those who rejected a request for voter information from President Donald Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud.
Senator Charles Schumer of New York is leading an effort to overturn the FCC's net neutrality decision. The FCC may have successfully overturned the current net neutrality rules during their December monthly meeting, but a call from one of the top Democrat Senators to repeal the decision clearly suggests that the battle over this issue has just begun.
U.S. Supreme Court justices raised concerns on Wednesday about the ability of police to obtain information on the past locations of criminal suspects using cellphone data from wireless providers without a warrant in a major test of privacy rights in the digital age. Several of the nine justices across the ideological spectrum made comments indicating that the absence of a court-issued warrant is troubling.
An appellate court has largely sided with Take-Two Interactive Software in a battle over whether the company violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting faceprints of video game players. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld a trial judge's decision to dismiss a class-action complaint filed by siblings Vanessa and Ricardo Vigil over the game NBA2K15.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in October 2017 in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, Nov. 15, Blumenthal announced alongside U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and four other senators a proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act that among other aims would penalize companies if they do not notify consumers promptly of breaches in their payment card systems and other databases storing sensitive information.
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in the Texas church shooting, according to people familiar with the matter. The federal government and the company have shied away from open confrontation since a 2016 standoff when the locked and encrypted iPhone of a gunman in San Bernardino, Calif., led to a major court battle.