The Yale Law Journal has published a short essay that I wrote in response to an article by Robert Litt, General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age. Mr…. Read More ›
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Bipartisan Caucus Launches in the House to Defend Fourth Amendment
On matters implicating privacy, such as mass surveillance or the powers of investigatory agencies, Congress has too often failed to fulfill its responsibilities. By neglecting to examine basic facts, and deferring to executive agencies whose secrets preclude meaningful debate, the… Read More ›
Jewel v. NSA Moves Forward—Time For NSA To Answer Basic Questions About Mass Surveillance
It’s time to lift the cloak of secrecy that has until now shielded the NSA from judicial scrutiny. EFF served the agency with information requests late last week in Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s signature case challenging government surveillance. Since we filed… Read More ›
House Leaders Politicize a Tragedy to Block Bipartisan Surveillance Reforms
After hurdling procedural barriers, a congressional attempt to protect privacy and encryption failed on the House floor yesterday, falling short of a majority by a mere 24 votes. Two years ago, the House stood united across party lines, voting by… Read More ›
House Poised to Advance Privacy and Defend Encryption…If Allowed to Vote
A bipartisan group of House members are preparing to introduce measures widely supported by their colleagues that would reign in NSA domestic surveillance and protect encryption. But a change in procedure adopted by the House leadership may deny the House… Read More ›
A Coalition Says to Congress: End 702 or Enact Reforms
Congress has no business approving government programs that neither it nor the public understands. Yet policymakers have repeatedly authorized surveillance activities without doing their homework. Over the eight years since enacting reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress… Read More ›
3 Years Later, the Snowden Leaks Have Changed How the World Sees NSA Surveillance
Three years ago today, the world got powerful confirmation that the NSA was spying on the digital lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people. It started with a secret order written by the FISA court authorizing the mass surveillance… Read More ›
Surveillance Chills Speech—As New Studies Show—And Free Association Suffers
Visiting an art exhibit featuring works about the U.S. war on terror or going to a lecture about Islam wouldn’t be cause for worry—unless you found out that the government was monitoring and keeping track of attendees. At that point,… Read More ›
In Hearing on Internet Surveillance, Nobody Knows How Many Americans Impacted in Data Collection
The Senate Judiciary Committee held an open hearing today on the FISA Amendments Act, the law that ostensibly authorizes the digital surveillance of hundreds of millions of people both in the United States and around the world. Section 702 of… Read More ›
Senate Judiciary Committee Begins Review of Mass Surveillance Statute
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act Tuesday May 10. The Act, passed in 2008, created what is now known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section… Read More ›