FBI can’t unlock Texas church gunman’s cellphone
Attendees pray during a vigil for the First Baptist Church shooting victims Tuesday in La Vernia, Texas. FBI say they have been unable to access data from the cell phone of the shooter.
Category Archives: Privacy
Mattel baby monitor listens, raises child-privacy concerns
Toymaker Mattel has announced plans to sell a nursery gadget that will listen to infants and watch over them, record their sleep patterns, and even play a lullaby should they awaken. Skeptics are asking if the device, similar to Amazon.com's Echo with its Alexa voice assistant, will violate children's privacy and deepen a trend of surrendering intimate human connections to technology that talks and listens.
Tomi Lahren Offers To ‘Wrap’ The Clinton Email Scandal In…
On her first day as a Fox News contributor, Tomi Lahren made a complete fool of herself. Within minutes of insisting that it's an important public interest to get FBI files on Hillary Clinton's emails, Lahren offered to ditch the whole "scandal" in exchange for others dropping Russia coverage.
FBI Decides to Withhold Hillary Files Because…Public Isn’t Interested?
Lawyer Ty Clevenger was denied an open-records request from the FBI seeking the agency's files dealing with Hillary Clinton's email investigation. "You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public's interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject," FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.
Pennsylvania district settles transgender bathroom lawsuit
A Pennsylvania school district will allow students to use restrooms that correspond to their "consistently and uniformly asserted gender identity" in settling a federal lawsuit brought last year by three transgender students. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund announced the settlement Tuesday in Pittsburgh with the Pine-Richland School District in the city's North Hills suburbs.
House Republican: US just as focused on data security as Europe
Rep. Will Hurd said Sunday that Europe can't pretend to be more idealistic on privacy issues than the U.S. while many of its nations try to enact laws limiting encryption. Hurd is one of a sturdy number of legislators - including a bipartisan House Judiciary working group on encryption - that opposes laws allowing law enforcement agencies to access all encrypted data in the United States.
Microsoft, Trump administration clash over email searches
Federal agents persuaded a judge to issue a warrant for a Microsoft email account they suspected was used for drug trafficking. But U.S.-based Microsoft kept the emails on a server in Ireland.
Wolf to Trump voter-fraud commission: You can pay for voter data like anyone else Updated at
President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission can get some of the data on Pennsylvania voters it seeks, but nothing more than is available to everyone else, according to a letter from Gov. Tom Wolf. The Presidential Commission on Election Integrity will not get Social Security numbers or other information it wanted - a request Mr. Wolf's letter called “problematic” for several reasons, including privacy concerns.
Supreme Court agrees to decide major privacy case on cellphone data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a major case on privacy rights in the digital age that will determine whether police officers need warrants to access past cellphone location information kept by wireless carriers. People speaks on their cell phones near a blocked off area after a speeding vehicle struck pedestrians in in Times Square in New York City, U.S., May 18, 2017.
Analysis: The Trouble With Trump’s Uneven Approach to Transparency
In January, Donald Trump and his lawyer Sheri Dillon held a press conference at which they laid out a plan for how the president would distance himself from his businesses. Among the steps they presented was a means to address concerns that foreign governments and leaders may attempt to curry favor with the president by staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. This, ethics experts said , would violate the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which states that government officials cannot "accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
WH doubles down on ‘compassionate’ cut to poverty programs
Concert suicide bomber is named as 'Manchester-born British-Libyan' jihadist Salman Abedi whose 22 victims include girl aged just EIGHT ISIS supporters celebrate terror attack as Twitter REFUSES to explain why tweet 'predicting' Manchester attack was not passed on to police... because of 'PRIVACY concerns' Trump blasts attacker who killed 22 people at a UK Ariana Grande concert as an 'evil loser' whose ideologies must be 'completely obliterated' Two women, 19 and 26, and a man, 30, arrested in Mississippi for a having a threesome on the deck of a family bar 'in front of God and everybody' 'They scared him to death': Boy, 16, killed himself hours after police 'confronted him about audio on his phone of a sexual encounter and warned he could be a sex offender' There are people on food stamps who don't want to work: White House doubles down on 'compassionate' work or starve benefits cut ... (more)
Court to rehear case on FTC’s authority
A federal court will rehear a case brought by AT&T against the Federal Trade Commission, after it ruled last year that the agency does not have authority over telecommunications companies. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Northern District of California said it will rehear the case before a full panel of judges.
Actually, Congress Did Undermine Our Internet Privacy RIghts
Don't listen to the telecom lobby. Congress' vote to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules has a profound impact on your online privacy rights.
Inside law enforcement’s high-tech toolbox
New technologies are giving law enforcement in Minnesota and across the country broad access to data on criminals and everyday citizens alike. Here are some examples you may have heard about - and why they are controversial.
Why Republicans’ 100-day war on Obama is about to end
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Despite the fact that President Trump and Congress can't agree on health care , his border wall and the budget , he's managed to sign legislation undoing more than a dozen Obama rules on education, the environment, health care and labor. Trump has undone so many regulations that, besides getting a Supreme Court nominee on the court, unraveling Obama rules on guns, coal dumping, Internet privacy and more is probably the president's biggest 100-day accomplishment.
Schatz talks policy with 500 constituents
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz nimbly fielded questions on a range of weighty policy issues ranging from internet privacy, health care, North Korea's nuclear threat and the situation in Syria during a mid-day town hall meeting at Chaminade University's Richard Mamiya Theatre in Kaimuki today. The Democratic senator blasted President Donald Trump's proposed policies, ethical conflicts and picks to lead departments such as the Department of Education and Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump’s choice: populism or corporatism
The real division in American politics today is no longer right or left, but rather between populism and an increasingly dominant corporate ruling class. This division is obvious within the Trump administration, elected on a nationalist and populist program but increasingly tilting toward a more corporatist orientation.
Is Congress encroaching on Americans’ Internet privacy?
At a time when American politics is perhaps more divided than ever, one issue has emerged that the vast majority of people, regardless of their political affiliation, can agree on: Internet privacy. On March 23, Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted along party lines - 50 to 48 - to eliminate proposed broadband privacy rules that would have required ISPs to receive explicit consent from consumers before selling or sharing their web browsing data, and other private information, with advertisers and other companies.
Sanders and Perez plan cross-country tour
Bernie Sanders Sanders and Perez plan cross-country tour 'SNL' alum: 'Moron' Trump 'didn't get the jokes' Senate Dems offer bill to restore internet privacy rules MORE will join Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez in a cross-country outreach tour to states where Democrats lost in 2016. The trip will begin in Maine in mid-April and will reach several states, including Kentucky, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, according to the Washington Post .
Senate votes to kill internet privacy rules meant to protect your data from ISPs
The Senate narrowly voted Thursday to overturn tough new privacy rules for internet service providers, employing a rarely used procedure to invalidate restrictions that cable and wireless companies strongly opposed. The Republican-backed measure, approved 50-48, repeals regulations approved on a 3-2 party line vote in October by the Federal Communications Commission when it was controlled by Democrats.