sign a special use authorization application as a "representative" of the Rainbow Family without violating federal law prohibiting the making of false statements. Second, he contends that the forest service's own regulations required it to waive the permit requirement. Finally, he argues that the proposed application that was tendered to him by forest service officers contained provisions that exceeded the scope permitted by the regulations. None of these arguments carries the day.

1. Legal Impossibility

Defendant's claim that it was "legally impossible" for him to sign a special use authorization as a "representative" of the Rainbow Family is without merit. His contention is similar to that raised by defendants in United States v. Rainbow Family, 695 F.Supp. 294, in which members of the Rainbow Family claimed that the Rainbow FamilyPrivacy International Files Complaint Against GCHQ's Use Of 'Bulk Personal Datasets'

from the chipping-away dept

Last month, we noted that the UK rights group Privacy International has been at the forefront of the fight against the UK's disproportionate surveillance activities, to such an extent that the UK government has changed the law just to avoid one of its legal challenges. Those have covered many different aspects of GCHQ's activities. In July 2014, Privacy International filed a complaint with the UK's spy watchdog, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), over GCHQ's surveillance tools. In September 2014, it tackled GCHQ's involvement in the "Five Eyes" system. And now it has come at things from yet another angle: Privacy International today filed a legal complaint demanding an end to the bulk collection of phone