Google Tips Off Users about FBI Investigation into Some Users
Google alerted dozens of people or more that the search engine giant was ordered by the FBI to release user data as part of an unspecified investigation.
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Google Releases Eight FBI Requests for Customer Data After Gag Order Lifted
Google published redacted versions of a secret eight FBI requests for customer data after a gag order was lifted.
Numerous Tech Companies Join Apple’s Fight with FBI Over Phone Encryption
Apple became the first big tech company to openly criticize the FBI’s attempts to force companies to unlock phones to help investigators get access to information.
FBI Abandons Plans to Require ‘Backdoors’ on All Consumer Tecnhology
The FBI has backed off plans to require all consumer technology to have a so-called backdoor so that law enforcement can spy on suspects.
FBI: Apple And Google Are Assisting Terrorists with Privacy Tecnhology
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Are Apple and Google the bad guys? A senior FBI official told a Congressional committee that the technology giants are aiding terrorists by offering users encrypted communications, a senior FBI officials told the House Homeland Security Committee, The Register reports. Michael Steinbach, assistant director in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said the…
Google Says Surveillance Proposal Would Allow FBI to Spy on Anyone Worldwide
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Google is fighting attempts by the Justice Department to get permission for the FBI to search and seize digital data in what the search engine giant said would make it possible for the “hacking of any facility” in the world, The Guardian reports. The Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules that is…
FBI to Allow Companies to Reveal When They Receive National Security Letters
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies like Google and Microsoft have long expressed frustration with the inability to disclose when they’ve received a secretive compliance order from the FBI seeking records. Under a new FBI policy, companies will be able to disclose the “national security letters,” but only “at the earlier of three years after the…
Tech Companies Urge Congress to Shed More Light on Secret Information Requests
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than two dozen companies and numerous trade groups are endorsing bills that would open more light on the government’s secret information requests, the Verge.com reports. The businesses and trade groups are showing their support for bills that would allow them to reveal when they receive requests for national security-related data. Among…