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10 May 2024, 9:21 am by Matthew Guariglia
  Section 702 allows the government to conduct surveillance inside the United States by vacuuming up digital communications so long as the surveillance is directed at foreigners currently located outside the United States. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 10:20 am by David Aaron
It created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and empowered it to issue orders authorizing national security electronic surveillance upon a showing by the government that, among other things, the target of such surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 9:07 am by Faiza Patel
Transparency is in some ways even more necessary with respect to national security systems, such as the surveillance and vetting programs run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the NSA that can have a profound impact on people’s lives. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 5:49 am by Senator Ron Wyden
Defenders of the FBI argue that the number of abuses has recently declined as a result of changes to the FBI’s internal policies. [read post]
11 Dec 2023, 5:55 am by George Croner
Those who coined the term “backdoor search” point to a 2019 decision (pp. 68-79), United States v. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 11:41 am by India McKinney
Our government, with the FBI in the lead, has come to treat Section 702—enacted by Congress for the surveillance of foreigners on foreign soil —as a domestic surveillance program of Americans. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 11:41 am by India McKinney
Our government, with the FBI in the lead, has come to treat Section 702—enacted by Congress for the surveillance of foreigners on foreign soil —as a domestic surveillance program of Americans. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 5:51 am by David Aaron
Those communications were exempt from FISA as long as they did not target a U.S. person in the United States and included a party outside the United States. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 6:59 am by Sarah Taitz
But in our world of secret electronic surveillance, notice is central to ensuring courts can rule on the lawfulness of the government’s most novel and dangerous spying tools—spying that today affects millions. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 12:30 pm by John Ross
District court: Well, you shot him in the back and he doesn't have a gun in the surveillance video, so … no qualified immunity. [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 7:55 am by Elizabeth Goitein
Since 1967, there has been no question that the Fourth Amendment requires the government to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance of Americans’ electronic communications in regular domestic criminal investigations. [read post]
26 Jul 2023, 6:18 am by George Croner
” That the FISC would make these observations and reach these conclusions undermines the ACLU’s argument on the FBI’s use of Section 702 as “a domestic surveillance tool. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 1:34 am by Seán Binder
Wray, the FBI director, for his role in investigating former President Trump, his efforts to address extremist violence, and the FBI’s electronic surveillance practices. [read post]
8 Jul 2023, 4:11 am by INFORRM
FazagaDecision Date: March 4, 2022 The United States Supreme Court unanimously reversed the ruling of the Ninth Circuit that section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) displaces the state secrets privilege in cases involving electronic surveillance. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:07 am by Ania Zolyniak
Indeed, the commission explicitly noted that its decision “exposes a situation whereby any internet platforms falling within the definition of an electronic communications service provider subject to the U.S. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:51 am by Asha Rangappa
Section 702 permits the executive branch to conduct electronic surveillance of nonUSPERS who are reasonably believed to be located abroad. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:16 am by Annie I. Antón, Olivia C. Mauger
There are also reports that Chinese-made drones are already likely being used to conduct surveillance on U.S. infrastructure. [read post]