Charlie Savage reports: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans’ domestic phone calls in bulk. But the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that it would ask the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,…
Month: June 2015
US Treasury Aggregates Posts to Social Media
Treasury Public Engagement Pages AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Treasury ACTION: Notice and request for comment. SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is issuing this notice to inform the public and solicit comments about a new method it is using to collect information and opinions posted on social media platforms. Relying on Treasury-generated “hashtags” and other social media identifiers,…
MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
Andy Greenberg reports: The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can’t be counterfeited. Now a similar mix of math and code promises to pull off another seemingly magical feat by allowing anyone to share their data with the cloud and nonetheless keep it entirely private. On Tuesday, a…
Warrantless phone tapping, e-mail spying inching to Supreme Court review
David Kravets reports: In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans’ electronic communications—a project secretly adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. Congress legalized the surveillance in 2008 and again in 2012 after it was exposed by The New York…