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Unlikely Allies in Congress Fight to Curb the NSA
"In the campaign to reign in the NSA, Wyden ”will be crucial in keeping the liberals together, putting pressure on the administration and being able to spe…
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Anti-NSA Surveillance Senators Cheer Federal Ruling While Harry Reid Waits It Out
""Harry Reid is going to have the ultimate say on this," ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson told The Huffington Post earlier this month…
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A Common Law Coup d'Etat: How NSA's Creative Interpretations Of Law Subvert Congress And The Rule of Law
Today, the federal District Court for the District of Columbia held that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program under the USA PATRIOT Act viol…
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Perfect enforcement: On the ground in the red light camera wars
"Those who object to the cameras don't do so solely on the grounds of an unproven safety record. Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at the Cumberland Sch…
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Privacy Laws Can Create Opportunities, Limitations, California Lawmakers Advised
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, said the notice and choice concept failed. McDonald said…
NSA's Creative Interpretations Of Law Subvert Congress And The Rule Of Law
Cross-posted from Forbes. In the wake of today’s tremendously important ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia that bulk collection of telep…
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Daniel Nazer of Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Supreme Court case that could set patent precedent. Full story can also be found here.…
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Tug Of Authority Over Legal Gap In Online Privacy
""There is no one law in the United States that mandates that websites and phone applications have good data security," says law professor Woodro…
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NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say
"“If the NSA were to mistakenly classify domestic servers as outside the United States, even at low rates, it would acquire a substantial amount of purely…
How the NSA Piggy-Backs on Third-Party Trackers
Cross-posted from Slate. By Edward Felten and Jonathan Mayer Snooping on the Internet is tricky. The network is diffuse, global, and packed with potential tar…
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NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say
"Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist, said the organization would wait for a public release of the report to evaluate its merits, but sai…
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White House Task Force Urges Curb on NSA’s Bulk Data Collection
"“Nothing short of stopping the mass, suspicionless surveillance of Americans is acceptable,” said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the ACLU’s W…