ACLU
Principal Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
PROFILE
Christopher Soghoian
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FROM Christopher Soghoian
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Yahoo scans millions of user emails Yahoo has reportedly gone where other email providers fear to tread — at least as far as we know. Email providers are known to have cooperated with FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, when it comes to individual email subscribers. This week, Reuters reported exclusively that Yahoo has gone much farther than that , scanning all of its hundreds of million user accounts for the National Security Agency. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union , calls the news " unprecedented and unconstitutional."
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Does the FBI Need a Back Door to Your Data? The FBI demands that Apple provide access to a dead terrorist Syed Farook's iPhone, which might contain evidence in December's deadly attack in San Bernardino. But Apple says the privacy of every other iPhone user could be lost forever, and it's challenging the power of government in the Era of Smart Phones. Complicating the issue, the FBI is using a law passed about the time that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity. We update the case in more ways than one.
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