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17 Jul 2012, 11:41 pm by tekEditor
After the NSA claimed it would violate Americans' privacy to say how many of us it spied upon, Binney was one of three NSA whistleblowers who decided to help back the EFF's lawsuit over the government's massive domestic spying program; they intend to tell the truth about the NSA's warrantless wiretap powers. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 2:09 pm
By JAYNE LYN STAHLApril 16, 2007Remember all the hooplah, and righteous indignation, on the part of Congress, when the National Security Agency electronic surveillance program story first broke, several months ago, and word got out that Bush & Co. have been illegally monitoring e-mails, and conducting warrantless eavesdropping in defiance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act law of 1978? [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]
15 Dec 2014, 3:44 pm by Cody Poplin
The Department of Justice has released six Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) documents related to the surveillance activities originally initiated by President George W. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 3:30 am by Ryan Singel
The room housed internet spying equipment Klein says was installed by the NSA. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 3:26 pm
If the former, it’s possible the interception was part of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program — a surveillance program aimed at intercepting foreign correspondence as it passed through domestic internet switches. [read post]
24 Oct 2012, 12:56 pm by David Edelstein
The civil rights group claims that the major telecoms provided the NSA a warrantless backdoor to the nation’s communication backbone. via Feds Cite ‘State Secrets’ in Dragnet Surveillance Case — Again. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 4:08 pm by amackey
In June, the government released the first batch of FISC opinions that concerned the government’s use of Section 702, the warrantless surveillance law set to expire in a few months. [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 Jun 2016, 5:34 pm by Shahid Buttar
Over the eight years since enacting reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress has failed to gain a functional understanding of NSA Internet surveillance, and has never even considered its impacts on democracy. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 3:30 pm
27B appealed the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Board decision to withold -- in their totality -- 69 of 72 documents related to the Board's hidden knowledge of the Administration's warrantless surveillance of Americans' emails and phone calls. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA — pdf Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits. [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]
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]
8 Jun 2015, 9:30 pm by Jane Chong
Although the FBI could direct U.S. providers to conduct surveillance at these chokepoints without NSA assistance, this would be duplicative of NSA efforts and cost-prohibitive. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 4:37 pm by Joe Mullin
Gage Skidmore / flickr A critical vote for intelligence funding today showed that Congress is sharply divided on the issue of NSA domestic surveillance. [read post]
19 May 2023, 9:39 am by Matthew Guariglia
In 2015, a federal appeals court held that NSA’s interpretation of Section 215 to conduct this surveillance dragnet was “unprecedented and unwarranted. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 12:10 pm by Robert Chesney
 Indeed, Charlie himself labels the emergence of the "transit authority" scenario as the creation of a "secret new power to employ a form of warrantless surveillance on domestic soil .... [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 10:00 am by Jerry Brito
Related Links One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty, by Chesterman“Warrantless Wiretaps: A Guide to the Debate”, NPRStronger Online Privacy Regulation Comes with Tradeoffs, TIME.com Techland To keep the conversation around this episode in one place, we’d like to ask you to comment at the webpage for this episode on Surprisingly Free. [read post]
The arguments hinged on a central question: Is the warrantless, non-targeted surveillance currently being conducted by the NSA, which is scooping up data on all (or almost all) calls made or received on U.S. telephone networks, a violation of the Fourth Amendment? [read post]