Today’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications ba…
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Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump
On Wednesday, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), gave a press conference in which he reported that Trump transition t…
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Yahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter
"“This is another example of how the government is pushing secretly novel or innovative interpretations of surveillance law” to conduct wiretapping in broa…
Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform
The legal authority behind the controversial PRISM and Upstream surveillance programs used by the NSA to collect large swaths of private communications from lea…
America’s founders hated general warrants. So why has the government resurrected them?
Laura Donohue is a professor of law at Georgetown University and was recently appointed as a public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Sh…
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NSA ruling reveals the harm of secrecy to the nation
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the…
ACLU v. Clapper Will End the Telephone Dragnet
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last week’s dramatic Second Circuit decision in ACLU v. Clapper, invalidated the alleged legal basis for the NSA domestic phon…
Yahoo! End-to-End email preview promises greater protection for journalists
Good news for journalists wanting added protection from surveillance. Yahoo! hasannounced a technical preview of its email security tool End-to-End, which it ha…
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Can an American be investigated for terrorism merely for expressing support for it? The government isn’t saying.
"“So people who are entirely innocent can be investigated under this statute,” said Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center fo…
New FISC Pen Register Opinion: It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody Gets Hurt
Cross-posted from Just Security. Once again, the NSA has conducted illegal spying. New documents reveal the National Security Agency’s (NSA) systemic violation…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
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We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…