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19 Dec 2016, 11:35 am by Amul Kalia and Andrew Crocker
Perhaps most famously, Yahoo challenged a secret order the company received in 2007 to produce user data in bulk under a just-passed law giving the NSA warrantless surveillance authority. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 7:00 am
That law allows the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of Americans when they are communicating with so-called “targets” abroad. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 10:32 am
In news coverage of the Ninth Circuit's oral argument of the case, Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian reported that "Warrantless surveillance in Portland holiday tree-lighting bomb plot challenged in court. [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]
19 Oct 2016, 1:15 pm
The USA Freedom Act ended the NSA’s mass phone records collection program, and it also required the government to make significant FISC opinions public. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 3:48 pm by Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold
NSA—bears some resemblance to the surveillance technique described in the Reuters report. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 10:15 am
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) — the statute the government uses to engage in warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications — is scheduled to expire in December 2017. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 4:27 pm by Shahid Buttar
Warrantless searches are conducted essentially by fiat, without independent review, and potentially arbitrarily. [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 12:40 pm by Shahid Buttar
A bipartisan group of House members are preparing to introduce measures widely supported by their colleagues that would reign in NSA domestic surveillance and protect encryption. [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]
9 May 2016, 8:30 am by Jake Laperruque , Joe Onek
This means, for example, NSA surveillance authorized for the purpose of preventing terrorism could be used in service of low-level investigations for tax fraud or drug possession. [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 Apr 2016, 4:24 pm by Cindy Cohn
The ruling confirms that NSA's warrantless spying has been formally approved for use in general criminal investigations. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 1:30 pm
The last time the senator warned that the executive branch’s secret legal interpretation would shock the public, it turned out he was referring to the NSA’s unlawful bulk collection of call records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 2:15 pm
This warrantless spying, known as “Upstream” surveillance, ensnares essentially everyone’s international Internet communications — including emails, chats, text messages, and even web-browsing information. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 5:16 pm by David Greene
This marks the first time a party has been allowed to gather factual evidence from the NSA in a case involving the agency’s warrantless surveillance. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 12:34 pm by Elina Saxena
” In other surveillance news, a newly released report from the NSA reveals that the agency collects less data from Americans than had been suspected. [read post]