A White House senior official said President Obama will call for an end to NSA bulk collection and storage of phone records. The Obama administration wants phone companies, not the NSA, to be responsible for storing bulk phone record metadata and for quickly handing over retained records if the government supplies a new type of surveillance court order.
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U-Md. computer security attack exposes 300000 records
Washington Post More than 300,000 personal records for faculty, staff and students who have received identification cards at the University of Maryland were compromised in a computer security breach this week, school officials said. The breach occurred about 4 a.m. … University of Maryland computer security attack hits 300000 people Hackers gained access to a secure records database that holds names, dates of … University of Maryland Computer Breach Exposes Records of Students and Staff |
Wireless carriers told Senator Edward Markey that they received 1.1 million requests for cell phone data information from law enforcement agencies in 2012. The number may appear to be less than the 1.3 million total requests for 2011, but don’t get excited; giving you a comparable answer is not possible, since Sprint – the third largest carrier in the U.S. – chose to give a sneaky answer instead of…
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According to a recent ACLU report, the FBI knows quite a few things about you even if you’ve not done anything wrong. “Unleashed and Unaccountable [pdf]: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority” documents this extraordinary expansion of FBI power over the last 12 years:
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