Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB

Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent report concluding that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone records under section 215 is illegal and ill-advised. Meanwhile, the PCLOB is gearing up to report in a few months its conclusions regarding mass surveillance of the content of Internet transactions under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act

Wednesday’s hearing is an opportunity for Congress to ask the PCLOB what it wants to know about section 702. Here are eight basic but important questions Congress should ask the PCLOB to investigate: Read More

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