The Electronic Privacy Information Center is filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Security Agency to obtain details of the deal NSA made with Google following the Chinese hacker attack on Gmail in 2010. -db From PCWorld, March 20, 2012, by John P. Mello Jr. Full story
The Justice Department has asked a federal district court to allow the government to refuse to discuss or even to acknowledge the existence of any cooperation between Google and the National Security Agency. The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents with details of the relationship. -db From The National Law Journal, March 13, 2012, by Mike Scarcella. Full story
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled that the CIA had the right to refuse to confirm or deny existence of records named in a Freedom of Information Act request. The refusal is called a Glomar response. The CIA had refused to provide information to a US. citizen seeking information on his grandfather, an Iceland citizen who allegedly was associated with the Icelandic Communist Party. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom
A federal judge is allowing the National Security Agency to avoid answering the question about a possible relationship between the agency and Google after the China hacking incident of January 2010. The judge said NSA ruled the agency only had state it can “neither confirm nor deny” that it has a relationship with Google.-db From a release from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, July 13, 2011. Full release
National Security Counselors of Virginia has filed three lawsuits against the Central Intelligence Agency for its failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. The violations include failing to provide unclassified information and treating all training materials, guidelines and reference materials provided by CIA FOIA analysts as exempt regardless of content. -db From a commentary in Unredacted, February 28, 2011, by Nate Jones. Full Story