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28 May 2015, 3:05 pm by HL Chronicle of Data Protection
We summarize both decisions as well as the congressional debate below. 11th Circuit Upholds Warrantless Collection of Cell Phone Location Data On May 5, the 11th U.S. [read post]
19 May 2015, 3:18 pm
Congress is considering incredibly flawed cybersecurity legislation, as well as potential reforms to NSA surveillance that don’t address the NSA’s use of “backdoors”—security flaws engineered into products and services to enable or facilitate government control or access to devices. [read post]
13 May 2015, 2:29 pm
That’s because Representatives Ted Poe, Thomas Massie, and Zoe Lofgren have introduced the bipartisan End Warrantless Surveillance of Americans Act (H.R. 2233). [read post]
9 May 2015, 8:11 am by Benjamin Wittes
That’s a very good thing: it’s good for civil libertarians; it’s good for the administration; and it’s good for NSA. [read post]
7 May 2015, 11:24 am by Sebastian Brady
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the NSA’s warrantless bulk collection of Americans’ phone records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is illegal. [read post]
25 Apr 2015, 9:20 am by Cyrus Farivar
A newly-released document from the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) own internal watchdog found that the government’s controversial warrantless surveillance and bulk data collection program was so secretive that the agency was unable to make “full use” of its capabilities even several years after the September 11 attacks. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 10:33 am by Matthew Harwood
 It would also be a first step towards the kind of systemic reform we desperately need – reform that would end the government’s dragnet surveillance practices, foreclose warrantless surveillance of Americans’ communications, require a degree of transparency about programs that haven’t yet been disclosed, and subject those as-yet-undisclosed programs to judicial review. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 1:55 pm by Sam Machkovech
" Or, more specifically, an "NSA spy cam blocker," which retails for $15 and comes with a giant "RAND" logo. [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]
2 Mar 2015, 11:43 am by Mark Rumold
This opinion, described as the "Rosetta Stone" of FAA surveillance by those familiar with it, purportedly represents the FISC’s full assessment of the range of legal issues presented by NSA surveillance under Section 702 of the FAA—a provision of law authorizing the government to conduct warrantless surveillance within the United States of overseas targets. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 10:25 am by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
National Security Agency in a lawsuit challenging the agency's warrantless interception of Internet communication.Read more here.Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 8:50 am by Taylor Gillan
The plaintiffs, AT&T customers, claimed that the NSA received copies of their Internet communications as part of a mass surveillance system, which they filtered using special terms to detect potential terrorist-related intelligence information. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 2:09 pm by rainey Reitman
President Obama recently announced slight changes to NSA data collection practices. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 7:00 am by Sebastian Brady
Clara Spera shared that the New York Times has obtained two previously classified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rulings through a FOIA lawsuit, and told us what these documents show not only about the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, but also the court that approved of it. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 5:30 am by Clara Spera
He also was willing to adjust his own prior legal analysis, in order to validate warrantless NSA surveillance of foreign nationals. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 11:03 am by Nadia Kayyali
” Similarly, an in-depth analysis of 225 cases of people charged with terrorism found that “the contribution of NSA’s bulk surveillance programs to these cases was minimal. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 1:00 pm by Mary Jane Wilmoth
” Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, documents detailing the top-secret surveillance program were published that corroborate what Binney had long said. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 5:23 pm by rainey Reitman
U.S. law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 11:00 am by Mark Rumold
This opinion, described as the "Rosetta Stone" of FAA surveillance by those familiar with it, purportedly represents the FISC’s full assessment of the range of legal issues presented by NSA surveillance under Section 702 of the FAA—a provision of law authorizing the government to conduct warrantless surveillance within the United States of overseas targets. [read post]