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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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Wikimedia v. NSA: Standing and the Fight for Free Speech and Privacy

On March 10, 2015, represented by the ACLU, the Wikimedia Foundation and eight co-plaintiffs filed suit against the NSA, the Justice Department, and others, over the mass search…
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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 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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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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Takeaways from the House Intelligence Committee Cybersecurity Hearing

On Thursday morning, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on “Cybersecurity Threats: The Way Forward,” featuring testimony by Adm. Michael Rogers,…
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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 FBI Doesn’t Need More Access: We’re Already in the Golden Age of Surveillance

This post comes in advance of this afternoon’s debate between Just Security contributors Andrew Weissmann and Peter Swire about Law Enforcement vs. SmartPhone Encryption at…
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The Surveillance State’s Legalism Isn’t About Morals, It’s About Manipulating the Rules

Margo Schlanger has written a great article forthcoming in the Harvard National Security Journal about intelligence legalism, an ethical framework she sees underlying NSA surveillance.…
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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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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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