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10 Jun 2014, 6:20 am
Public Deserves to See Secret Law Written by Office of Legal Counsel Washington, DC - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court of the United States to weigh in on a long-standing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in which EFF sought to obtain a secret legal memo authorizing the FBI to obtain phone records without any legal process. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 5:21 pm
Meaningless Warrant Requirements The new proposal to expand Section 702 fails to protect Americans whose electronic communications are predictably swept up during broad NSA surveillance. [read post]
24 May 2022, 5:01 am
April is “reporting season” regarding the annual activities of the U.S. intelligence community under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) releasing its Annual Statistical Transparency Report and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) sending its mandated report on the activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to Congress. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 1:27 pm
On Thursday, in United States v. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:51 am
Section 702 permits the executive branch to conduct electronic surveillance of nonUSPERS who are reasonably believed to be located abroad. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 7:20 am
While former FBI Director James Comey chose not to raise the CSAM issue, current FBI Director Christopher Wray is leading full force with this incendiary argument. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 10:00 am
They also now have the option of undertaking electronic surveillance, in the case of national security cases through FISA. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 12:14 pm
Our amicus brief in United States v. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 11:41 am
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]
9 Jul 2013, 2:46 pm
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed for a writ of mandamus and prohibition in the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday, asking them to vacate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s Order requiring production of phone records for domestic customers of Verizon.In the petition, the questions presented are (1) Whether the FISC exceeded its statutory authority under 50 USC §1861 to authorize foreign surveillance when it… [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 10:53 am
This argument formed the basis of the dissent to one of the key cases the FBI relies upon, United States v New York Telephone Co., 434 US159 (1977). [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 1:01 pm
Photo: Agitproper/Flickr See Also: FISA Amendments Act Document Tracks Changes to FISA Since 2001 FBI’s Sought Approval for Custom Spyware in FISA Court FBI Recorded 27 Million FISA ‘Sessions’ in 2006 Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA Surveillance of Americans Spying Bill Redefines WMDs [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 6:43 am
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department together said this today, apparently in response to an earlier Intercept story on FBI and NSA surveillance of Muslim Americans: It is entirely false that U.S. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political, religious or activist figures solely because they disagree with public policies or criticize the government, or for exercising constitutional… [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 9:47 am
” For more information, see In re Electronic Privacy Information Center. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 5:00 am
There is nothing new about efforts to advance facially neutral arguments, including arguments about the FBI and FISA, in support of a political agenda, such as defending a president of the United States. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 3:24 pm
In an underground facility the size of two football fields, a request reaches an FBI server every second from somewhere in the United States or Canada, comparing a set of digital fingerprints against the FBI's database of 55 million sets of electronic fingerprints. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 9:33 am
Here’s answer #645: The contractor that secretly sells electronic surveillance products in one country may also be secretly and illegally influencing elections in yours. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 6:59 am
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]
8 Mar 2007, 8:01 am
SA Graham’s protected disclosures report the violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in conducting electronic surveillance of high-profile U.S. public officials.Before his retirement in 2002, SA Gilbert Graham worked for the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) Squad NS-24. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 4:36 am
Electronic surveillance protocols are found in Title III of the United States Code, specifically 18 U.S.C. [read post]
