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Not Without A Warrant

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Congress, Ecpa, Wiretap, Mobile Phone, Surveillance, Petition, Fourth Amendment, Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, Privacy, Government Surveillance, Online Privacy, Technology News
Leslie Harris

Anytime the government wants to peek at your online photos, read your emails, or track your mobile phone it should follow the same rules as it does offline, stand before a judge and get a warrant.

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Feds Rest In Alabama Bingo Trial

AP | By BOB JOHNSON | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Corruption, Electronic Bingo, Casino, Wiretap, Victoryland, Legislature, Macon County, Vote Buying, Ronnie Gilley's County Crossing, Legalize Gambling, Crime News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- After more than seven weeks of testimony, federal prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against nine people including a casino own...

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Getting Communications Security Right

Susan Landau | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Wiretap, Communications, Security, Nsa, Surveillance, Internet Security, Crime, Gmail, Google China, Technology News
Susan Landau

The calculation is that on balance, the U.S. is better off with the deployment of strong cryptography than not. Each of these steps makes it easier for civilians to communicate securely.

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Getting Wiretapping Right

Susan Landau | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Cyberexploitation, Wiretap, Cybersecurity, Transactional Data, Vulnerability, Fbi, Technology News
Susan Landau

Cell phones are easy to tap, as are centralized Internet communications such as Facebook or email messages. But peer-to-peer communication -- think Skype -- poses a problem to the FBI's electronic eavesdroppers.

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The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation

Susan Landau | Posted 05.25.2011

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Susan Landau

The FBI's current proposed rewrite of wiretap law creates serious security risks.

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Moving Rapidly Backwards on Security

Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Wiretap, Eavesdropping, Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, Cybersecurity, National Security, Fbi, Technology News
Susan Landau

The FBI wants to roll back government regulations on encryption in order to be able to wiretap more easily. But our real security problem doesn't lies in law enforcement's inability to read the on-line communications of criminals.

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Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent -- Not A Single Request Refused

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to a report re...

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Is Your Email Private?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Is your email private? You may think it is, but you may also be surprised how easy it is for law enforcement to access it without a warrant.

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Cheney: A Tortured Soul

Lance Simmens | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lance Simmens

Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.

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Raj Rajaratnam: Denies Insider Trading Allegations, Says Trades Were Based On Analyst's Work

Bloomberg | David Scheer, Joshua Gallu and David Glovin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorneys for Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam denied a U.S. regulator's claims he engaged in insider trading, saying he based investments on anal...

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CIA 'Whistleblower' Informed Hastert Of Harman Wiretap Being Suppressed

CQ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected "whistleblower" in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressin...

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NSA Wiretapping: Justice Department Reining It In

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports tha...

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NSA Intercepts Exceed Limits Set By Congress

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyo...

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Changing Politics From The Bottom Up

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arthur Rosenfeld

The more sleaze we see in politics the more all this talk of change becomes not nearly so much a campaign slogan or political rallying cry as a plaintive plea.

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts Of Revised Patriot Act

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order ...

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