The FBI must expedite...
The FBI must expedite the release of information about the controversial StingRay mobile phone tracking software, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled Thursday in Washington. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued the FBI in April 2012, more than two…
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months after it filed a FOIA request for information on government use of the software, claiming the FBI failed to respond to EPIC’s FOIA request within the established 20-day deadline, Kollar-Kotelly said in her ruling. The FBI issued the request to “relevant offices” on May 23, and by July 30, had gathered about 25,000 potentially relevant pages, she said. The agency claimed it needed to delay its response because an estimated 25 percent of those pages would “be subject to classification/declassification review,” Kollar-Kotelly said. The FBI failed to show that it is “deluged with [a] volume of requests ... vastly in excess of that anticipated by Congress,” she said. The agency will need to “produce all responsive, nonexempt records not subject to classification/declassification review” by Aug. 1, and must indicate by May 31 “how many pages are subject to classification/declassification review, and propose a deadline for completing production of those documents, as appropriate,” Kollar-Kotelly said (http://bit.ly/YGsXAX).