… Recent events in the Middle East offer cases in point. In early March angry Egyptian crowds stormed into the buildings of the country’s secret police in a last-minute attempt to preserve documents that were about to be destroyed by departed President Hosni Mubarak’s cronies. There, amid shredded files, activists found transcripts of their own [...]
… Research In Motion is already providing intercept services for messaging, web browsing and email hosted on its own servers – as it does in every other country, with the degree of judicial oversight being set by the local government. But RIM has stubbornly refused to provide access to corporate email services on the grounds [...]
… In 2010, the document shows, the DEA paid ISPs, telcos, and other communication providers $6.7 million for pen registers and $6.5 million for wiretaps. Pen register payments more than tripled over the past three years and nearly doubled over the past two. Wiretap payments stayed roughly the same. The documents confirm that Microsoft does [...]
