Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to collect intelligence from non-Americans located outside the United States without a warrant. Section 702 cannot be used to target Americans. At least some people say that Section 702 needs some reform. When Section 702 was first enacted lawmakers knew that this could spell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FDA Begins Process to Change Patching of Medical Devices The Food and Drug administration is beginning to understand that their 19th century strategy that requires manufacturers to recertify their products every time they apply a patch only leads to the devices being hacked – which they are being, regularly. They have also asked Congress for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in an earlier post, after 9-11 Congress passed some major new surveillance laws. The idea was to increase surveillance in a move to try and find more terrorists. Congress also wasn’t completely sold on the idea, so the law sunsets every few years and Congress has to renew it. This is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or FISA Court has affirmed that the Feds do not need a warrant to search your email. Of course, if that email is encrypted – not like GMail, but with real encryption – then while they may have the FISA court’s permission to look at it, they will have to […]
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