Surveillance and the Limits of Law

Surveillance and the Limits of Law

Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to sunset. New legislation would kill it entirely. But how much do intelligence agencies follow the law anyway?

By Alex Marthews | March 4, 2020 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Privacy, Security | Amazon, AT&T, Black Lives Matter, Civil Liberties, Congress, Constitutional Law, Dissent, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Gang of Eight, ICE, Intelligence Agencies, Internet, Jewel v. NSA, Law Enforcement, Legal Precedent, Mass Surveillance, Michael Hayden, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, NSA, Orwell, Palantir, Patriot Act, Privacy, Restore the Fourth, Revolution, Russell Tice, Section 215, Sensors, Spying, Standing Rock, Supreme Court, surveillance, Surveillance Oversight Ordinances, Violence

He Started #DeleteFacebook… Nine Years Ago

Nine years ago, three artists created a controversial site to make a statement about Facebook’s practices. The company sued and accused them of scraping data. Oh, the irony.

By Art Keller | April 11, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Law, Media, Privacy | Advertising, Apps, Art, Bits of Freedom, Cambridge Analytica, Chris Wylie, Congress, Danja Vasiliev, Dark Patterns, Data Scraping, Data-Mining, Deleting Accounts, Developers, Digital Art, Edward Snowden, EFF, Facebook, Fraud, Gordan Savicic, Manipulation, Mark Zuckerberg, Moddr, Privacy, Privacy Zuckering, Social Commentary, Social Media, Tobias Leingruber, Twitter, Walter Langelaar, Web Suicide Machine

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

US Intelligence Stockpiles Cybersecurity Flaws, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable

US intelligence agencies are still hoarding “zero-day” cybersecurity vulnerabilities, making everyone less safe online while creating a market for unethical hackers.

By Art Keller | May 3, 2017 | Defense, Security | CIA, Cisco, Cybersecurity, Department of Commerce, Edward Snowden, FBI, Gamma Group, Hacking, Hardware, Julian Assange, Microsoft, National Cyber Security Alliance, NSA, Phishing, ReVuln, Security Flaw, Shadow Brokers, Small Business, Software, Vault 7, VEP, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Equity Process, Vupen, Wikileaks, Zero-day

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