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2 Oct 2014, 1:07 pm by Dave Maass
Months before Edward Snowden kicked off the international debate over electronic surveillance, EFF scored a major victory when a federal judge ordered the FBI to cease its practice of issuing NSLs—demands to telecommunication providers to provide information about their users that are not approved in advance by a judge. [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 1:55 pm
The Electronic Frontier Foundation brought the telco litigation. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 8:20 am by Ritika Singh
” The FBI stated that it was not aware of any documents shared with state and local law enforcement prior to the bombings although “representatives of these agencies could have found some information in the FBI’s terrorist tracking system, the ‘Guardian system. [read post]
" The request was reviewed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 6:03 am by Dave Maass
Because the government collects the records of every telephone call made to, from and within the United States, the vast majority of the records it collects are plainly irrelevant. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 10:21 am by Jason Kelley
To commemorate the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th anniversary, we present EFF30 Fireside Chats. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 9:08 am by Sean Joyce, David Kris
In such cases, the FBI may open a “preliminary investigation” and use most of its authorities except for electronic surveillance and physical searches that require a warrant. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 11:29 am by Ryan Singel
But an AT&T employee provided the unit with a way around some of those requirements. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 7:30 am by Katitza Rodriguez and Nadia Kayyali
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued orders that allow the NSA to share raw data—without personally identifying information stripped out— with the FBI, CIA, and the National Counterterrorism Center. 15. [read post]
24 Jun 2018, 1:51 pm by David Kris
S. 347, 353 (1967), which reached the opposite conclusion when “FBI agents . . .attached an electronic listening and recording device to the outside of the public telephone booth from which [the defendant] had placed his calls. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:20 am by Barbara McQuade
For example, electronic surveillance may be used in a full investigation but not in an assessment or preliminary investigation. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 6:00 am by Ashley Deeks
Will the United States argue that pervasive public surveillance violates the covenant? [read post]
12 May 2020, 11:52 am by Margaret Taylor
First, it would prohibit an officer of the United States from requesting, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from ordering, five different things: electronic surveillance of a U.S. person, physical search of premises or property of a U.S. person, installation and use of a pen register or trap-and-trace device to obtain information on a U.S. person, production of tangible things concerning a U.S. person, and any targeting of a U.S. person for… [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 4:00 am by Shreve Ariail
The law essentially authorizes the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence to electronically surveil non-U.S. persons (i.e. non-citizens and non-permanent legal residents) to acquire foreign intelligence information if the person is “reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. [read post]
8 Oct 2018, 5:50 am by Steve Stransky
Section 702 of FISA authorizes warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. persons “reasonably believed to be located outside the United States,” with the compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 11:30 am by Alan J. Borsuk
” He said electronic surveillance, at the time he was attorney general, was appropriate. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
One of the more troubling documents leaked by former NSA contract employee Edward Snowden was the top secret order signed by Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) court Judge Roger Vinson directing Verizon to turn over to the FBI and NSA “all call detail records or “telephony metadata” created by Verizon for communications . . . wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 11:00 am by Jodie Liu
We desperately need more comprehensive reforms to address the mass Internet surveillance being done inside the United States under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act and outside of the country under the President’s authority. [read post]