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20 Apr 2018, 2:45 pm
When people’s data is transferred from Europe, it is vulnerable to warrantless mass surveillance by the NSA and other agencies under two broad spying authorities: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Order 12,333. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 1:01 pm by David Kravets
A legal challenge questioning the constitutionality of a federal law authorizing warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans inched a step closer Wednesday toward resolution. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 6:00 am by Robyn Greene
” Another 22 percent answered that they were somewhat concerned about this warrantless use of Americans’ communications. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 5:19 pm by April Glaser and Kurt Opsahl
NSA, brings to light the real implications of mass surveillance–people are afraid to associate and meet based on likeminded interests. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 1:05 pm by April Glaser
“Mass warrantless surveillance by the NSA has restricted our ability to freely think, act, research, innovate, and share ideas in a multitude of ways,” reads the letter from Stanford University students penned by student Devon Kristine Zuegel. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 12:14 pm by andrew
As Congress considers reforming Section 702, the NSA’s warrantless surveillance authority, EFF and ACLU are asking a federal court of appeals in New York to find this surveillance unconstitutional. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 5:53 pm
The key question in the growing fracas over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales role and testimony about the Intensive Care Showdown isn't whether Gonzales committed perjury or misled Congress in his linguistic dividing up of the warrantless surveillance into two programs, one pre-showdown and one post-showdown. [read post]
18 Jan 2006, 3:49 am
[JURIST] In response to mounting criticism of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Tuesday took time during his daily press briefing [official transcript] to react to the two lawsuits filed by civil rights organizations [JURIST report] Tuesday against the administration. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 10:22 am by Nadia Kayyali
A meaningful first step The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 is a real first step because it creates meaningful change to NSA surveillance right now, while paving the way for the public to get more information about what the NSA is doing. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 5:28 pm by Andrew Crocker and Cindy Cohn
Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on behalf of Wikimedia and a number of other media and human rights organizations. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 2:19 pm by David Ruiz
“In 2001, then-President Bush directed the NSA to conduct an illegal, warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 4:40 pm by Jon Brodkin
Details on a government ruling that the NSA violated the Constitution could help the EFF in its broader fight against warrantless wiretapping authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008. [read post]
27 Sep 2014, 6:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” In a petition to the Supreme Court, EPIC challenged the NSA’s surveillance of domestic communications. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 11:02 am by Techdirt
Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, James Robertson, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance, Wiretapping     [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 7:55 am by Elizabeth Goitein
In the 1970s, the Church Committee revealed that the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA had all engaged in improper surveillance of Americans under the guise of “foreign intelligence” collection. [read post]
10 Jul 2006, 8:27 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for the US Justice Department (DOJ) argued in federal court again [JURIST report] Monday that a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] must be dismissed because defending it in court would jeopardize national security. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 5:08 am
Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists, and vacuumed in all domestic communications of Americans, including, faxes, phone calls and network traffic. [read post]