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27 May 2020, 1:49 pm by Russell A. Miller
Pursuant to the amended law, in order to have a legal basis, foreign-foreigner surveillance operations would have to fulfill one of several statutorily identified mandates: (1) to discover and counter threats to the internal or external security of the Federal Republic of Germany; (2) to safeguard the Federal Republic of Germany’s ability to act; and (3) to acquire information concerning foreign and security matters of interest to the… [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 7:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via FAS – Surveillance of Foreigners Outside the United States Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Edward C. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 6:37 am
Until recently, no court, treaty body, or government had suggested that international law, including basic privacy protections in human rights treaties, applied to purely foreign intelligence collection. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 10:45 am by Ashley Deeks
Until recently, no court, treaty body, or government had suggested that international law, including basic privacy protections in human rights treaties, applied to purely foreign intelligence collection. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 6:00 am by Peter Swire, Jesse Woo, Deven Desai
A second justification for differential surveillance arises depending on the context of the surveillance—such as foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence, foreign affairs, foreign adversaries and international armed conflict—each of which can alter the analysis of what type of surveillance is proper. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 5:04 am by David Kris
In this highly charged and confused environment, Congress will soon take up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA), which is set to expire at the end of 2017. [read post]
The Committee is concerned that until recently, judicial interpretations of FISA and rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) have largely been kept secret, thus not allowing affected persons to know the law with sufficient precision. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 4:44 am by Kenneth Anderson
Yet to the chagrin of many state leaders, academics, and foreign citizens, international law has had little to say about foreign surveillance. [read post]
Moreover, the rules that govern surveillance under the executive order are of particular concern because that surveillance is not meaningfully overseen by Congress, and it is not overseen at all by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 10:58 am by constitutional lawblogger
In a 5-4 opinion this morning, the Supreme Court rejected the standing of Amnesty International to challenge domestic surveillance under FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and its amendments, often called FAA (FISA Authorization Amendments). [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 4:21 pm by Matthew Guariglia
Under the post-2016 order, an independent panel oversees the BND and any foreign intelligence collected from international communications networks must be authorized by the chancellor. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 1:15 pm
The document is an opinion issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. [read post]
23 May 2017, 2:15 pm
The government claims that Upstream surveillance is authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 3:18 am by Benjamin Wittes
It is an internal government computer system used to facilitate the government’s statutorily authorized collection of foreign intelligence information from electronic communication service providers under court supervision, as authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (50 U.S.C. [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 9:22 am by Timothy Edgar
Amnesty International, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the plaintiffs could not challenge surveillance under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act because they could not show their communications had been obtained by the NSA. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 11:13 am by karen
This warrantless surveillance is conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 8:11 am by Jennifer Granick
  Activities authorized by Section 702 are subject to oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Executive Branch, and Congress. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 12:36 pm by Mali Friedman
Amnesty International USA et al., the United States Supreme Court rejected two theories of Article III standing presented by a group of attorneys, human rights, labor, legal, and media organizations who sought a declaration that surveillance under section 1881a of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) is unconstitutional as well as an injunction against section 1881a-authorized surveillance. [read post]
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm by Steve Vladeck
Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intelligence surveillance exception to the Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Clause, and why I think it’s the heart (albeit not the entirety) of the matter in Clapper: I. [read post]