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The former Navy Nuclear engineer and his wife used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents. According to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) collaborated to arrest […]
DOJ: “Disclosure is not currently an option.” Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website. The case, United States v. Jay Michaud, is one of nearly 200 cases […]
Short Bytes: To improve transparency to the users, Google has revealed eight National Security Letters issued between 2010 and 2015 after the FBI lifted gag restrictions on these letters. The NSLs were used to obtain user information from Google. Google has shared eight notices or National Security Letters it received from the FBI. NSLs are issued […]
Short Bytes: Very often governments ask the tech companies to provide the personal information of their customers and force them to remain silent. Taking a stand against the DOJ in a similar matter, Microsoft has sued the U.S. government over its unconstitutional practices of secret data requests. Microsoft has taken a stand against the way […]