Alexander Rudolph writes in »Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty« for digitaljournal.com Does this affect the federal government and military? Yes. It appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter. ...
Paul Farhi writes in »The Washington Post’s new slogan turns out to be an old saying« for washingtonpost.com Woodward’s source appears to be Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who ruled in a pre-Watergate case that the government couldn’t wiretap individuals without a warrant. In his decision, Keith apparently coined a variation of The Post’s motto, writing that “Democracy dies in the dark.” ...