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28 Apr 2023, 2:29 pm by Matthew Guariglia
Nevertheless, the NSA routinely (“incidentally”) acquires innocent Americans' communications without a probable cause warrant. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 9:58 am by Matthew Guariglia
Nevertheless, the NSA routinely (“incidentally”) acquires innocent Americans' communications without a probable cause warrant. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 5:48 am by Elizabeth Goitein
As I explained in comments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) last November, a geographic limitation on FISA’s reach might have made some sense in 1978, when surveillance inside the United States generally meant surveillance of Americans and surveillance abroad generally meant surveillance of foreigners. [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by James Petrila
The artful drafting of the (f)(3) definition allowed the NSA to continue its warrantless collection of international communications on a programmatic basis while the (f)(1) definition prohibited the NSA from targeting known persons in the U.S. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 5:46 pm by Cindy Cohn
Congressman has publicly identified himself as the subject of likely illegal surveillance by the NSA and FBI. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 4:37 pm by Andrew Crocker
The history of the national security state—from the Pentagon Papers to the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program—suggests the opposite. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 9:51 am by George Croner
Editor’s Note: This is part two in a multi-part series on foreign intelligence surveillance reform. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 4:17 pm by Matthew Guariglia
In 2021 alone, the FBI conducted up to 3.4 million warrantless searches of Section 702 data to find Americans’ communications. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 8:26 am by Associated Press
The Supreme Court declined to revive an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 5:51 am by Elizabeth Goitein
Congress must rewrite the rules to ensure that the government cannot rely on its foreign intelligence surveillance authorities to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 11:25 am by John A. Emmons
Jeff Kosseff considered the impending lapse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. persons on American soil by the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
24 May 2022, 5:01 am by George Croner
The reversion to the narrower scope of § 1861 precipitated by Congress’s failure to extend its broader provisions in March 2020, combined with NSA’s suspension of the CDR program, has seen the use of this national surveillance authority decline by nearly 90 percent within the past five years. [read post]
24 May 2022, 5:01 am by George Croner
The reversion to the narrower scope of § 1861 precipitated by Congress’s failure to extend its broader provisions in March 2020, combined with NSA’s suspension of the CDR program, has seen the use of this national surveillance authority decline by nearly 90 percent within the past five years. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 6:39 am by Joseph Robinson
Under the Patriot Act, the NSA conducted warrantless general surveillance of millions of Americans- their phone calls, emails, contacts, and locations. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 8:07 am by Rohini Kurup
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Wikimedia Foundation that challenged parts of the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) warrantless surveillance program of Americans’ international internet communications. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 12:45 pm by Hina Shamsi
And the NSA’s collection of virtually every American’s call records ended after Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations about the scope of government surveillance took our breaths away. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 9:21 am by Patrick Toomey
The public learned about the NSA’s “PRISM” and “Upstream” programs, which involve the NSA working closely with companies like Google, Facebook, AT&T, and Verizon to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications on a massive scale. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 12:25 pm by India McKinney
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires tech and telecommunications companies to provide the U.S. government with access to emails and other communications to aid in national security investigations--ostensibly when U.S. persons are in communication with foreign surveillance targets abroad or wholly foreign communications transit the U.S. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 11:50 am by Matthew Guariglia
The Fourth Circuit court of appeals has also called warrantless use of aerial surveillance a violation of the Fourth Amendment. 5. [read post]