By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  (founder, Senior Writer) and Eric De Grasse (Chief Technology Officer)

13 June 2013 – So in the land that makes litigation fun, the American Civil Liberties Union, together with the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New York which claims that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance of millions of Verizon customers is unconstitutional. The suit lists key members of the Obama administration’s national security team as the defendants.

Meanwhile in Europe there has been much chatter that internet companies that pass data to the NSA under the PRISM program could face legal action in the European Union (EU).  Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, has added her voice to the chorus of questions directed towards the US Attorney General over revelations surrounding PRISM.  She will be raising the issue at a meeting with the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in Dublin this week.

And this all comes on the news that the Obama administration successfully lobbied the European Commission to strip its data-privacy legislation of … Read more