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The Intelligence Time Machine

On Tuesday, members in the House and Senate introduced new versions of the USA Freedom Act that would prohibit bulk collection of records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act,…
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The Minimalist Surveillance Reforms of USA Freedom

On April 30, the House Judiciary Committee will take up a warmed-over version of last year’s USA Freedom Act. The committee has offered a rather optimistic claim of the surveillance…
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Appointing Democratic Judges to the FISA Court Won’t Solve Its Structural Flaws

Chief Justice Roberts recently named two new judges to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — Judge James P. Jones from the Western District of Virginia and Judge…
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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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The Right Way to Share Information and Improve Cybersecurity

This year is turning out to be a banner one for flawed proposals that would allow businesses to share information about Americans’ online activity with the Department of Homeland…
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A Terrorist Conspiracy Via Email

On April 3, 2009, Abid Naseer, a 22-year-old Pakistani student, sat in front of his computer in his Manchester, England, apartment and drafted an email to his al-Qaeda handler…
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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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OHCHR Call for Comments on Encryption and Anonymity Online

David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, has issued a call for submission of information related to…
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An Intelligence Committee Agenda

There are big changes coming to the congressional intelligence committees in the 114th Congress, with new leadership in both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)…
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Extending Privacy Protections to Foreigners Will Benefit Americans

I wanted to add a few thoughts to Ryan Goodman’s post outlining policy arguments for and against giving foreigners the same privacy protections enjoyed by Americans (at least…
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A Republican Senate Takeover Won’t Doom Surveillance Reform

Late on the evening of May 29, 2014, California Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D) called a small, bipartisan group of lawmakers to her office in the Longworth Building on the Capitol Hill campus.…
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2014 Congressional Midterms and Surveillance Reform: Races to Watch

This is the first of two posts discussing the future of surveillance reform after the 2014 midterms. The second post is available here. The high water mark for NSA reforms in the…
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