In case you didn’t hear about it yet, President Bush just signed into law changes to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that, among other things, grants immunity to telecom companies that cooperate with the secret warrantless wiretap program.
Posts Tagged ‘Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’
FISA Change Gives Telecoms Immunity; Headaches Ahead For Businesses?
Thursday, July 10th, 2008The Deputy Director of National Intelligence Does Not Understand Key Concepts Of Privacy
Monday, November 12th, 2007I found a report yesterday, “Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy” quite interesting. The impact on privacy…the actual definition, not the definition Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, thinks it should be…would not only be a huge step backward for the country, but it would also increase the threats to personally identifiable information (PII) exponentially.
