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8 Jul 2008, 4:56 am
Bush called on Congress Tuesday to reject amendments [WH fact sheet] to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] that would deny telecom companies retroactive immunity for participating in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [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]
1 Jan 2019, 1:11 pm by Cindy Cohn
Hasbajrami will likely issue its ruling on whether warrantless NSA surveillance violated a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 5:38 am by Andrew Crocker
Obama, a challenge to the NSA’s warrantless collection of phone records, currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, has received some high-profile support. [read post]
22 Dec 2005, 1:28 pm
[JURIST] The presiding judge of the 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) [constituitive statute], the secret court charged with overseeing government espionage activities, has organized a classified briefing for panel members to allow administration representatives to report on the scope of the recently uncovered [JURIST report] National Security Agency (NSA) [official website [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 4:00 am
The purpose, he was told, was to eliminate journalists from possible suspicion so that the NSA could focus on those who merited further surveillance. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 10:32 am by Jennifer Stisa Granick
The head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, General Paul Nakasone, has asserted that the U.S. was handicapped in finding malicious traffic on government systems because intelligence agencies cannot liberally conduct warrantless surveillance on domestic networks. [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 9:15 am by Trevor Timm
  Informing criminal defendants of warrantless wiretaps only exposes illegal spying on a small few, and the Justice Department has made no promises to inform the millions of ordinary American’s caught up in the NSA dragnet. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 8:21 am by Frank Pasquale
Ray Ku called warrantless surveillance unconstitutional in 2010. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 5:32 pm
Following up in general on postings related to the administration's domestic surveillance program, and specifically on, Federal Judge Rules NSA... [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 2:50 pm
District Court Judge Vaughn Walker refused to stop five states from seeking information about phone company participation in the NSA's warrantless surveillance program. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 12:21 pm by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
The law that we’re challenging, the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008, is the most far-reaching surveillance law ever enacted by Congress. [read post]
The bill summary claims that as the FISA has grown due to new technology, the FBI and NSA “have conducted millions of warrantless searches of Americans’ communications, resulting in extensive documented abuses. [read post]
8 May 2016, 9:05 pm by Mark Jaycox
” The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has strongly opposed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“Section 702”) since its enactment because the statute is used to conduct unconstitutional and warrantless surveillance. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 9:15 am
  Here are two of the sweeping surveillance powers that President Obama is going to hand over to President Trump: Executive Order 12333 is the primary authority under which the NSA conducts surveillance, and it encompasses a dizzying array of warrantless, high-tech spying programs. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
Not so, according to Walker: This provision and its legislative history left no doubt that Congress intended to displace entirely the various warrantless wiretapping and surveillance programs undertaken by the executive branch and to leave no room for the president to undertake warrantless surveillance in the domestic sphere in the future. [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]
1 Dec 2014, 9:09 am by Jason Zarin
Santa may rely on the Elf on the Shelf for his surveillance, but the US government uses the NSA. [read post]