The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is trying...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is trying to learn more about the U.S. government’s collection of communications under Executive Order 12333, filing a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, it said in a blog post Friday (http://bit.ly/1nZWW4Z). The…
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full scope of the programs 12333 authorizes is not known, and EPIC said it hopes its requests to the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the NSA “will shed light on these invasive programs.” The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board recently said it would examine 12333 after issuing reports on Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (CD July 24 p4).