NSA Breaks New Eavesdropping Law

A year ago, Congress passed the Protect America Act, a broad surveillance effort allowing the National Security Agency to monitor international communications of citizens. It seems the bill wasn’t broad enough, or perhaps the descriptions of what was happening were distorted. The New York Times reports the NSA “overcollected” domestic [...]

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Protect America Act

The Protect America Act. Another perfect example of how government regulations and piece meal privacy protections affect the American populous. And most of us don’t even know it. People check their credit scores, and deal with the occasional letter from their bank or TJX telling them their personally identifiable information was compromised. Sometimes a newspaper prints an article surrounding the warrant violations, or a case is sensationalized on Law and Order. Until now, the Internet was a safer haven.

One of the things that’s come up during my CIPP preparation is the European Union’s approach to [...]

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