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NSA, FOIA, and a long-running quest for Telephony Metadata

October 22, 2017

Gathering information through FOIA or public records requests can be a long-term endeavor. I made a privacy act request to the NSA back in October 2013, shortly after the Guardian revealed that the NSA had been collecting telephony metadata from Verizon customers. I happened to be a Verizon customer at the time, so I asked the NSA for a copy of my telephony metadata, via a Privacy Act Request. The NSA responded as follows FOIA Case: 75473 21 November 2013 Dear Mr. Revilak: T...
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FOIA Files: the NSA’s intranet home page

April 30, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a blog post about my FOIA request for the CIA's intranet home page Intranet home pages are a prominent part of large organizations; people who work there are likely look at the intranet a couple of times a week -- even if only to see what the cafeteria is serving for lunch. I filed this request because I was curious about what the average CIA employee saw after logging into their computer and firing up a web browser. The CIA denied my request in full, which isn't terribly ...
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