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Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute,
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This latest set of declassified documents is related to programs authorized by Sections 501 and 702 of FISA.
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That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,...
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The Supreme Court today denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center's request for mandamus review of telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny.
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Luca Urech (Fletcher School, MA candidate in Law and Diplomacy) has written in with the following reaction to my post on the extraterritorial right to privacy, discussing how we might apply the concept o...
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So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder.
In Clapper v.
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Paul already linked to his and DNI General Counsel Bob Litt's testimony (which also represented J.
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I testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. The hearing was on the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 -- a proposal by Senator Fr...
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Ben and David Cole have been having an exchange (see here and here) about a “universal right to privacy,” including a discussion about what such a right might look like. Stepping back, it is useful to u...