Help End Section 702 Surveillance

Help End Section 702 Surveillance

Section 702 of 2008’s FISA Amendment Act, the basis of an enormous surveillance program, is about to lapse. A new bill, the USA Rights Act, would fix it.

By Mo Lotman | October 25, 2017 | Defense, Ethics, Government, Human Rights, Law, Policing, Privacy | ACLU, America, Back-Door Searches, Bipartisanship, CIA, Democracy, EFF, FAA, FBI, FISA, FISA Amendments, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Intelligence Agencies, Liberty Through Strength Act, NSA, Patriot Act, Privacy, Rand Paul, Restore the Fourth, Reverse Targeting, Ron Wyden, Rule of Law, Searches, Section 215, Section 702, surveillance, Ted Poe, Tom Cotton, US Constitution, USA Rights Act, Zoe Lofgren

Will Surveillance Finally Sunset?

Controversial surveillance authorizations are scheduled to sunset this year. Now is the time to press for the end of these Constitution-defying practices.

By Warren Christopher Freiberg | July 26, 2017 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Arab American Institute, Bob Goodlatte, Dan Coats, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Freedom of the Press Foundation, George W. Bush, House Freedom Caucus, Human Rights Watch, Internet, John Conyers, Mark Meadows, Mass Surveillance, Maya Berry, PRISM, Privacy, Restore the Fourth, Section 702, surveillance, Tom Cotton

Now Following You on Twitter: The Police

Social media monitoring tools let local law enforcement scoop up and sift through everyone’s posts, regardless of suspicion.

By Warren Christopher Freiberg | March 29, 2017 | Law, Media, Policing, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Alex Marthews, Babel Street, Baltimore, Boston, Brennan Center for Justice, California, CIA, Civil Rights, Dataminr, Department of Homeland Security, Facebook, FBI, First Amendment, Florida, Fourth Amendment, Freddie Gray, Geofeedia, Instagram, Law Enforcement, Media Sonar, Michigan, Monitoring, Police, Protests, Restore the Fourth, Snaptrends, Social Media, Social Media Monitoring, surveillance, Texas, Tracking, Twitter

The Perpetual Line-Up: Interview With Clare Garvie

In October, the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law released The Perpetual Line-Up, a comprehensive report about the [...]

By Art Keller | December 7, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Law, Policing, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Anonymity, Biometric Data, Chicago Police, Constitution, Crime, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Driver's Licenses, Facebook, Facial Recognition, FBI, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Freddy Gray, Freedom of Information Act, Geofeedia, Georgetown, Instagram, LAPD, Law Enforcement, Maryland, Michigan, Next Generation Identification System, NYPD, surveillance, Surveillance Cameras, Transparency, Twitter, West Virginia

Microsoft’s Latest OS May Inspire Defenestration

In the summer of 2015, Microsoft released their Windows 10 operating system to much fanfare. It came with a new [...]

By Art Keller | August 31, 2016 | Advertising, Economics, Privacy | ACLU, Apple, Bing, Cortana, Data-Mining, EFF, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Software as a Service, Windows, Woody Leonhard

Podcast #4: Alex Marthews on Protecting Privacy

Alex Marthews is the executive director of Restore the Fourth, a national non-partisan advocacy group dedicated to promoting enforcement of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. He spoke with publisher Mo Lotman about the legal terrain surrounding mass surveillance, including a new effort to bring oversight of the application of surveillance technologies in local communities.

By Mo Lotman | August 10, 2016 | Human Rights, Law, Podcasts, Privacy, Security, Society | ACLU, Edward Snowden, EFF, FISA, Fourth Amendment, Restore the Fourth, Santa Clara, Stingray, surveillance, Warantless Wiretapping