In a report published today in The Wall Street Journal, the Obama White House was presented with the final four recommendations for restructuring the National Security Agency’s (“NSA”) controversial bulk collection of data. As one would imagine, none of the four options available are perfect, but they include: (1) Abolishment of the entire program itself; (2) have […]
The debate on “regulating the Internet” has become more prevalent over the past few weeks. The Federal Trade Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and now the White House have all sent indications to the private sector that regulating the Internet may be inevitable if data security and privacy standards are […]
The Obama Administration issued an executive order on Friday, October, 7, 2011, to replace safeguards that exposed thousands of classified government documents in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal last year. Specific details on the safeguards were not posted, but the Administration stated that procedures were implemented to monitor and detect specific behavior on sensitive […]