Requests by law enforcement agencies for traditional types of surveillance\u00a0such as wiretaps\u00a0are reported to U.S. Congress as mandated by U.S. federal law.\u00a0 Modern types of surveillance (electronic surveillance methods)\u00a0like accessing stored data from email, IM’s, and cell phone locations\u00a0require no such reporting.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0paper published by Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University Bloomington – Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, titled “The Law Enforcement Surveillance Reporting Gap<\/a>”\u00a0explores the issues:<\/p>\n “Third party facilitated surveillance has become a routine tool for law enforcement agencies. There are likely hundreds of thousands of such requests per year. Unfortunately there are few detailed statistics documenting the use of many modern surveillance methods. As such, the true scale of law enforcement surveillance, although widespread, remains largely shielded from public view.”<\/em><\/p>\n Via PCWorld<\/a>, Jeremy Kirk goes on to\u00a0highlight the growing number of requests by law enforcement for stored communications<\/a>:<\/p>\n Expect\u00a0privacy concerns and\u00a0legal issues of proper reporting and use <\/a>to\u00a0mount as surveillance\u00a0methods, be they in the form of\u00a0video from IP cameras or\u00a0tracking electronic data,\u00a0continue to expand.<\/p>\n Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Requests by law enforcement agencies for traditional types of surveillance\u00a0such as wiretaps\u00a0are reported to U.S. Congress as mandated by U.S. federal law.\u00a0 Modern types of surveillance (electronic surveillance methods)\u00a0like accessing stored data from email, IM’s, and cell phone locations\u00a0require no such reporting. A\u00a0paper published by Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University Bloomington – Center for Applied Cybersecurity… Continue reading \n