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Surveillance in the Age of Trump: What Does FISA Reauthorization Mean for Our Privacy?
An amendment proposed by the House of Representatives would have added new privacy measures to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that shored up the rights of U.S. citizens. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
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A Century of Mass Government Surveillance Is Enough – It’s Time for New Limits
As a nation we're uncomfortable with the morality of the degree – not the kind – of intelligence collection that occurs as a result of secret government-business partnerships.
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Twitter Sues U.S. Government Over Surveillance Disclosure Rules
The social media giant filed suit Tuesday against the Department of Justice and FBI, saying it's been "unconstitutionally restricted by statutes that prohibit and even criminalize" information disclosure.
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Justice Department Withholds FISA Court Orders on NSA's Bulk Collection of Data
The decision to keep some of the records secret, in the thick of Edward Snowden’s revelations, has raised suspicions within the ACLU that the government continues to hide bulk surveillance activities from the U.S. public.
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Beyond the NSA: Other Agencies Spy on You, Too
The Surveillance State Repeal Act would rescind the PATRIOT Act entirely, as well as the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, restoring rights that have been constitutionally violated by the FBI among other agencies.
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Investigation: The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
After 9/11, the NYPD built in effect its own CIA — and its Demographics Unit delved deeper into the lives of citizens than did the NSA.
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Snowden: U.K. Government Is Now Leaking Documents About Itself
Edward Snowden said he is not the source of an Independent article about Britain's secret Internet-monitoring station.
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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Privacy or Security: Do We Only Get To Pick One?
After the Boston Marathon bombing, 61 percent of Americans said they were more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that would restrict their civil liberties.
