{"id":7456,"date":"2012-07-20T04:57:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T04:57:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T04:57:39","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7456","title":{"rendered":"verge.com: &#8220;Secret surveillance and gag orders highlight weak US data privacy laws&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>verge.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/7\/19\/3167287\/secret-surveillance-gag-orders-highlight-weak-us-data-privacy-laws\">Secret surveillance and gag orders highlight weak US data privacy laws<\/a> by Joshua Kopsteinon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From cell phone tower dumps to the NSA&#8217;s surveillance compound in Utah, the number of tools that government agencies use to obtain and store the communications records of phone and internet subscribers has expanded immensely in the past few years. An article in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal focuses on an unnamed phone company in Northern California who, with the help of the EFF, has been fighting since May of 2011 against one method that&#8217;s particularly alarming in its obscurity. The National Security Letter (NSL), created by statute in the 1980s and expanded greatly in power by the USA Patriot Act in 2001, is a kind of secret subpoena that can give the FBI free reign over an American citizen&#8217;s cell phone data \u2014 including text messages, call logs, location data, and more \u2014 without the need for judicial approval or oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}