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Talking About Section 215: A Readers’ Guide

Media coverage of John Oliver’s critique about the lack of discussion surrounding government surveillance programs seems to prove his point. Much, if not most, of the attention…
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How a Case of Stolen Corn Seeds Shows the Problem with the FISA Court

As collateral challenges to the mass surveillance programs disclosed by Edward Snowden like US v. Moalin, US v. Muhtorov, and US v. Mohamud are winding their way through the courts,…
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Reforming the FISA Court

There has been much discussion, on the pages of this blog and elsewhere (here, here, and here to name just a few), about the procedural shortcomings of the FISA Court — the lack…
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US Government Makes Slight Concession in Twitter’s Warrant-Canary Suit

The US government last week conceded for the first time that some companies have the right to publish so called “warrant canaries” in a new filing supporting its partial motion…
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Guest Post: US Intelligence Reforms Still Allow Plenty of Suspicionless Spying on Americans

Last week, the Obama Administration released a report and documents cataloging progress toward signals intelligence (SIGINT) reform goals set a year ago by the President in a document…
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The Newest Reforms on SIGINT Collection Still Leave Loopholes

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper this morning released a report detailing new rules aimed at reforming the way signals intelligence is collected and stored by certain…
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The Latest Rules on How Long NSA Can Keep Americans’ Encrypted Data Look Too Familiar

Does the National Security Agency (NSA) have the authority to collect and keep all encrypted Internet traffic for as long as is necessary to decrypt that traffic? That was a question…
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US Government Seeks to Deny Twitter’s “Warrant Canary” Challenge

On Friday, the Justice Department asked a federal district court to brush away a lawsuit filed in October by Twitter seeking greater freedom to publicly report on the numbers and…
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In 2007, One Judge Said No to the NSA

Last week, the government quietly released a new cache of court filings and orders from late 2006 and early 2007 that together reveal a watershed moment in the government’s effort…
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Guest Post: Drone Courts–A Response to Professor Vladeck

Editors’ note: In this post, Professors Brand, Guiora, and Barela reply to Steve Vladeck’s December 2 post, “Drone Courts: The Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem,”…
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There Will Be Surveillance Reform

How should we understand the Senate’s failure to pass the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday? I’m not sure. But I’m pretty sure it’s misguided to propose, as Steve Vladeck did…
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The Problem With Legalism in the Surveillance State

Editor’s note: this post is a preview of ideas raised in an upcoming article by the author, Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties Gap,…
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