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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.
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.
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.
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."
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
We are now onlya week from the start of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, and this new extended AP article reviews Judge Gorsuch's record onthe cases that I usually give the most attention. The article is headlined "Gorsuch has ruled for police, and suspects, in crime cases," and here are excerpts: Judge Neil Gorsuch wasn't convinced that a teenager who made burping sounds in a classroom should be arrested, handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention in a police car.
The USS John C. Stennis sails in the Philippine Sea. The Trump administration's choice to become the next Navy secretary has pulled his name from consideration, the Pentagon said Sunday, the second nominee to head a military service who has bowed out in recent weeks.
Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports. The issue gained attention recently after at least three travelers, including a Canadian journalist, spoke out publicly about their experiences.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reposted some animal welfare records following complaints from animal rights groups and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer . The records posted Friday do not include inspection reports on other animal facilities such as horse and dog breeding centers.
Microsoft notches another win in its battle to protect cloud data privacy, as an appeals court quashes the DOJ appeal over a warrant for data stored in an Ireland data center. Microsoft notched another win in its battle to protect cloud data privacy for data stored outside of the United States when an appeals court declined to reconsider its decision preventing the U.S. government from forcing Microsoft to turn over cloud data.
In the months following the 9-11 terror attacks, as America's intelligence agencies struggled to explain how they missed connecting the dots leading to the attacks, there began a major push both inside and outside government to ensure such a lapse never occurred again. The focal point of this push was the intelligence community's ability to access what it determined to be critical information -- emails, text messages, phone calls, and any other digital communication -- necessary for collecting and analyzing to find "suspicious" activity.