● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ ICE Loses Access To Sensitive Utility Customer Records Following Pressure By Senator #RonWyden https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211210/13012148097/ice-loses-access-to-sensitive-utility-customer-records-following-pressure-senator-ron-wyden.shtml

ICE Loses Access To Sensitive Utility Customer Records Following Pressure By Senator Ron Wyden

Another one of ICE's (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) data spigots has been shut off. Don't cry too many tears for poor old ICE. It still has plenty of options. It's still hoovering up location data from app developers who either...

‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/surveillance-state-september-11-panic-made-us-vulnerable

'The #Snowden #documents showed that by 14 September – just three days after the attacks – the then director of the #NSA, #MichaelHayden, had taken a " #tactical-decision” to begin #snooping on the #digital #communications of #people based in the #US.'
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