The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently accused the Department of Homeland Security of violating federal law when it failed to publish a Privacy Impact Assessment for its planned media monitoring services. EPIC is arguing that the DHS should have conducted and published a Privacy Impact...
Newly-released documents reportedly proved Senator George Brandis’s statement about the Australian government’s opposition to encryption backdoors to be nothing more than a semantic sleight of hand as it will not preclude backdoors elsewhere in the secure messaging pipeline. In the notes released by the Attorney-General's Department...
Earlier this week, the FBI had reportedly denied a request made by ZDNet under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to find out how many of their investigations had suffered because of device encryption. The agency had recently made a statement that complained that thousands...