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25 Feb 2016, 10:14 am by Dave Maass
Indeed, the program creates a troubling partnership between government and the private surveillance sector. [read post]
1 Sep 2018, 5:46 am by William Ford
Jake Laperruque suggested that once the PCLOB becomes operational again, the board’s top priorities should be examining the call detail record program set to expire next year, the impact of counterterrorism surveillance, and continued transparency problems with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 12:07 pm by Dave Maass
For more on ALPR, check out EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance FAQ. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 10:09 pm
Before the Patriot Act, the law allowed the government to obtain a surveillance order from the FISA court when it certified that the primary purpose of surveillance was the gathering of foreign intelligence information. [read post]
19 Sep 2024, 1:07 pm by Brendan Gilligan
It’s especially jarring to read that a foreign government’s potential collection of data supposedly justifies banning an application, given Congress’s recent renewal of an authority—Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—under which the U.S. government actually collects massive amounts of Americans’ communications— and which the FBI immediately directed its agents to abuse (yet again). [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 3:26 am by Andrew Crocker
We have known for some time that the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community looks to find and exploit vulnerabilities in commercial software for surveillance purposes. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 12:17 pm by Eva Galperin and Nate Cardozo
According to a slide made public in the Snowden revelations, in 2012, the United States gave almost $500,000 to the Ethiopian government to fund their surveillance efforts—enough money to buy plenty of licenses for the FinFisher software used to spy on our client. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 10:16 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
On Oct. 29, WhatsApp sued the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group for installing surveillance malware on the phones of more than a thousand WhatsApp users, including journalists and human rights activists. [read post]
12 May 2015, 10:52 am
Its “customers” are other elements of the United States government that rely on its surveillance. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 7:54 am
  It has created a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance that should set off warning bells in the free world. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 11:06 am by Jim Baker
But going dark is broader than encryption; it involves the decreasing ability of the government to conduct effective lawful surveillance for many technical reasons, including but not limited to the widespread adoption of encryption technology. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 9:04 am by Lawrence Solum
United States a majority of the justices appeared to recognize that under some circumstances aggregation of information about an individual through government surveillance can amount to a Fourth Amendment search. [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 7:11 am
United States a majority of the justices appeared to recognize that under some circumstances aggregation of information about an individual through government surveillance can amount to a Fourth Amendment search. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 10:50 am by Lawrence Solum
United States a majority of the justices appeared to recognize that under some circumstances aggregation of information about an individual through government surveillance can amount to a Fourth Amendment search. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 11:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
The letter specifically refers to the two pillars of the government’s strategy, Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 2:55 pm by Cyrus Farivar
The Guardian In the wake of two newly published orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by The Guardian, two American legislators have introduced a bill that would require the government to declassify FISC opinions that describe how the secret court has interpreted Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 10:13 pm
Here is the abstract:On August 5, the Protect America Act of 2007 amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to permit the federal government to conduct electronic surveillance that previously required court approval. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 3:42 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In addition, other countries have used anger over U.S. government surveillance as a cover for implementing a new wave of protectionist policies specifically targeting information technology. [read post]