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Christie, Paul, and the NSA
"A study by the New America Foundation, a centrist Washington think tank, agreed: "Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impa…
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For the First Time Since 9/11, Congress Checks the Security State
"Stanford legal scholar Jennifer Granick wrote before Sunday’s vote that the Senate shouldn’t rush to pass the Freedom Act as is. It “was negotiated at a t…
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Sunset of Section 215 Means All Eyes on USA FREEDOM Act
"“This shows that there’s a really serious lack of consensus as to what the government surveils in our name, and what we really want as Americans,” Granick…
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Washington wisdom on data collection shown up by Justice Department verdict
"“The American people have learned the hard way to be skeptical of such scare-mongering,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Un…
A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
In the wake of a recent appellate court’s decision that the NSA’s domestic dragnet collection of phone call records is illegal, political support for maintainin…
Sen. Paul’s Great Surveillance ‘Filibuster’ and What to Expect Next
By Patrick Eddington and Jennifer Granick Senator Rand Paul, joined by Senator Wyden and other surveillance reform advocates, as well as five members of the Ho…
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…