Data Security & Privacy

How Does the NSA Spying Program Work and What is a “National Security Letter”?

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Appellate court judge, Hon. Richard Leon, ruled today that the mass collection of American’s telephone data is “Orewellian” and most likely unconstitutional. What exactly is a “National Security Letter” (or “NSL” for short)? Actually, NSL’s have been around for quite some time, but the USA PATRIOT Act greatly expanded its functionality in the wake of […]

Data Security & Privacy

Are ‘Super 8’ Tech Firms Being ‘Disingenuous’ in Call for Limits on Government Surveillance?

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To better understand issues that are not always easily answerable, sometimes we should be forced to examine the alternative opposing viewpoint no matter how benign or absurd. While it would seem hard to defend the NSA’s practice of mass collecting call detail records of non-suspect Americans as not violating the 4th Amendment rights under the […]