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27 Oct 2017, 12:45 pm
Those protections were significantly undermined by the FISA Amendment Act of 2008, which created Section 702 to retroactively authorize and expand a Bush-era warrantless wiretapping program conducted by the NSA. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 1:28 pm by Jennifer Suder
A bipartisan group of US senators introduced the USA Rights Act [text] on Tuesday that would overhaul aspects of the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless internet surveillance program. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 5:53 pm by rainey
Congress is poised to vote on extending or reforming NSA surveillance powers in the coming weeks, and one issue has risen to the forefront of the fight: backdoor searches. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 5:36 pm by davidruiz
It fixes the “backdoor search loophole,” which now allows warrantless searches of the NSA-collected contents of Americans’ communications. [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]
23 Oct 2017, 5:49 pm by davidruiz
As for judicial oversight, the court that approves warrants under Section 702—known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—has rebuked the NSA in multiple opinions. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 8:23 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From The Hill, via NACDL news scan: A carefully crafted compromise proposal to reform the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program is in trouble, with opposition coming from libertarian-leaning conservatives and members of the House Intelligence Committee. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 5:19 pm by davidruiz
  TAKE ACTION SPEAK OUT AGAINST WARRANTLESS NSA SURVEILLANCE TODAY Related Cases: Jewel v. [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]
8 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Ben Wizner
In the second, the U.S. surveillance state has outgrown legal restraints and allowed its surveillance activities to be driven by technological capabilities. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Liza Goitein
" Tim Edgar’s “Beyond Snowden” makes an important contribution to the burgeoning body of literature on post-9/11 NSA surveillance. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Siobhan Gorman
The secret loosening of internal checks on NSA programs following the 9/11 terrorist attacks resulted in the warrantless surveillance program, Stellar Wind. [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]
27 Jun 2017, 6:34 am by kate
That is the authority the government claims justifies the warrantless Internet surveillance of innocent Americans and others around the world and includes controversial Upstream and PRISM programs. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 10:03 am by Jake Laperruque
We are rapidly approaching the point where Congress must decide the future of Section 702 of FISA, the authority for the PRISM and Upstream warrantless surveillance programs that expires at the end of this year. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 1:15 pm
Under the law, service providers are required to facilitate the government’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 4:53 pm by kate
That estimate is a critical piece of information for lawmakers to have as they consider whether and how to reauthorize and reform the warrantless Internet surveillance of millions of innocent Americans in the coming months. [read post]