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Reason
June 2007
Jeff Taylor |
Letters of the Law A report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine confirmed what many critics of the PATRIOT Act had long suspected: Under the law, warrantless searches and seizures have skyrocketed, especially via the FBI's national security letters.   |
Information Today
December 26, 2005
George H. Pike |
Congress Extends USA PATRIOT Act by 1 Month The USA PATRIOT which had been set to expire on Dec. 31, 2005, will now expire on Feb. 3, 2006. |
Reason
June 2007
David Weigel |
Right All Along, Unfortunately At every turn, security hawks have argued their critics are overanxious, paranoid "Chicken Littles." At this point, the chickens are looking awfully prescient. It's the hawks who are in trouble, beset by scandals connected directly to the laws for which they begged. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
DOJ to Appeal Patriot Act Ruling Judge says 'democracy abhors undue secrecy' as he strikes down provisions that allow the FBI to obtain names from ISPs without judicial authority. The DOJ isn't buying it. |
BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Richard S. Dunham |
The Patriot Act: Business Balks Businesses are joining critics who seek to curb the Patriot Act's wide-ranging investigative powers. |
Information Today
September 2005
George H. Pike |
PATRIOT Summer: Extending the USA PATRIOT Act While there is no question that some form of the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Act will pass, now is the time to make your voice heard about which version of the act should pass. |
PC World
October 17, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
DOJ Describes Its Cybersurveillance (Sort Of) Congressional inquiry satisfied, but some want more details about how Patriot Act power is being used. |
Information Today
September 10, 2007
George H. Pike |
Federal Judge Overturns PATRIOT Act NSL Provisions Late last week, a federal court declared portions of the USA PATRIOT Act dealing with National Security Letters to be unconstitutional. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
FBI Abandons Carnivore New FOIA documents show that feds haven't used once controversial e-mail snooping system in two years. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
FCC Wiretap Order Raises ACLU Ire The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday became the latest member of a growing group challenging the Federal Communications Commission's order that all Voice over IP providers must build a standardized wiretap backdoor into their systems. |
PC World
October 16, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
Reason
November 2004
Julian Sanchez |
Selling PATRIOT The Department of Justice released "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at Work," to help persuade its critics that the PATRIOT Act is both necessary to fight terrorism and unlikely to undermine American liberties. But a close reading of the report suggests the opposite is true. |
Reason
October 2005 |
Thirty Years Ago in Reason From October 1975: The FBI and CIA still spy and keep secret files on U.S. citizens... Every country and every people should be allowed to work out their own destiny... Prostitution has always been therapeutic... |
Information Today
July 14, 2015
George H. Pike |
USA FREEDOM Act: Protector of Civil Liberties or Window Dressing? For the first time since the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress has scaled back the scope of its provisions. |
RootPrompt.org
July 17, 2000 |
Calling the Cops I have had a lot of questions concerning the police and the cracker that I have written about in the Cracked! articles. With these questions in mind I have written this article that explains several incidents involving the police and system administrators and attempts to answer some of these questions.... |
InternetNews
July 7, 2009
Alex Goldman |
FBI, DOJ Agents: We're Gaining on Cyber Crime While the Internet helps criminals organize and to reach across borders, it can also help law enforcement catch them. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007
J.J. Brazil |
Mission: Impossible? The FBI is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2010 |
FBI, DOJ Identity Theft Programs Fall Short A new report from the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General says the government is making a big mistake by not making ID theft prevention and prosecution a top priority. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
FBI's Virtual Case File Flops The FBI is ready to scrap Virtual Case File (VCF), an automated case management system, to replace an antiquated method of gathering information that relied heavily on paper. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2005
Harry Goldstein |
Who Killed the Virtual Case File? How the FBI blew more than $100 million on case-management software it will never use. |
Salon.com
June 18, 2002
Jeffrey Benner |
Every dial you take The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no. |
CIO
January 27, 2011
Kim S. Nash |
FBI CIO's Mission: Modernize When he joined the FBI from Lehman Brothers, Chad Fulgham inherited an obsolete IT infrastructure and major project on the brink of failure. Two years later, agents have BlackBerrys and SharePoint, but the work isn't finished. |
InternetNews
February 13, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
FBI Laptops Make Most Wanted List Audit reports lost and stolen FBI laptops included computers in anti-terror and counter-spy programs. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
ARL, ALA Issue Statement Supporting PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association have issued a statement saying they strongly support the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 |
Searcher
June 2003
Miriam Drake |
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Patriot II on the Way This article focuses on the government's data mining, information gathering, database building programs, and Radio Frequency Identification Chips. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
FBI: Twilight For Bank Phishermen U.S. and Poland hackers had targeted a major financial institution. |
Reason
October 2002
Nick Gillespie |
Freedom for Safety: An old trade -- and a useless one The USA PATRIOT Act is a synecdoche for the freedom-for-safety swap. In making the freedom-for-safety swap, we haven't just dishonored the dead of 9/11. We've helped something else die too. |
Reason
June 2006
Jeff A. Taylor |
How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen The smoldering gun was right there all the time. It was bureaucratic hierarchies and power trips that let the Federal Bureau of Investigation ignore the carefully gathered evidence of an attack. |
Reason
November 2005
David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters. |
PC World
March 2002
Kim Zetter |
Snoopware: New Technologies, Laws Threaten Privacy The FBI's 'Magic Lantern' keystroke logger could help catch terrorists, but at what cost to your fundamental rights? |
Reason
October 2004
John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2004
Roy Mark |
FBI Sting Targets P2P Operation DOJ launches first peer-to-peer criminal probe by targeting a network of Direct Connect users. |
InternetNews
March 20, 2008 |
Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday. |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Daryl Lindsey |
"Hollering fire in a crowded theater" The FBI's chief negotiator during the Waco siege says critics and conspiracy theorists are sowing dangerous discord. |
Reason
April 2002
Mike Lynch |
Data: Big Talkers Post-September 11, it seems strange that terrorist threats once needed to be hyped. But that's exactly what the Department of Justice did to help justify its $22 billion budget, according to a Miami Herald investigation... |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2005
James R. Janz |
Act Accordingly As the threat of terrorism continues nationwide, commercial property owners and landlords should be aware of their duties to comply with the Patriot Act's regulations. Making use of legal counsel, industry resources, and policy groups to help understand these obligations is essential |
CIO
April 15, 2003
Ben Worthen |
What to Do When Uncle Sam Wants Your Data As the czars of data, CIOs better be prepared when the FBI knocks on their doors. |
Bank Technology News
May 2003
John Adams |
Age of Tech's Transparency The Patriot Act could be just the beginning |
CIO
June 1, 2001
Tracy Mayor |
Break Glass, Pull Handle, Call FBI If you're the victim of a security breach or a virus attack, get the feds on your side... |
PC World
October 9, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
Report Card on the Patriot Act In its first year, the controversial Patriot Act -- which gives federal investigators unprecedented access to Americans' online communications -- has been effective while respecting privacy, federal officials say. Privacy watchdogs say failures and problems aren't publicized. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Sandra Upson |
Wiretapping Woes In the U.S., there is trouble ahead for those wanting to monitor Internet-based calls. |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005 |
Meet Cyberspace's Head Fed Nailing the Internet's most wanted takes a combination of tech wizardry and good, old-fashioned police work. |
Salon.com
May 12, 2001
Alicia Montgomery & Fiona Morgan |
Botched! "If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder... |
Chemistry World
December 24, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
FBI's 2001 anthrax investigation was flawed The scientific evidence that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation relied upon to investigate the October 2001 anthrax attacks was deeply flawed, according to a new report. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2010 |
FBI Busts International Cybercrime Syndicate After a year-long investigation, the FBI and local law enforcement charges 37 hackers with using Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million from U.S. banks. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
The FBI's Secret Letters To Internet Service Providers... Revealed The FBI can request users' web browsing activities and e-commerce histories without a warrant. |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Les Seagraves - Interview Earthlink's chief privacy officer had to deal with the FBI and its infamous Carnivore surveillance tool. See how he balances customer privacy concerns and governmental compliance... |
Reason
May 2004
Sara Rimensnyder |
The FBI Files Federally funded art takes on new meaning. |
Information Today
September 2003
Dick Kaser |
Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. |
Reason
June 2005
Jesse Walke |
Ohio Clampdown Four Ohio cities have denounced the PATRIOT Act, and, in some cases, asked their employees to work around it to whatever extent the law allows. |
