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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An unfortunate story on the non-review of U.S. surveillance authority in Section 702

Federal oversight agency punts on international human rights, while findings the programs lawful and constitutional The President’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB”)…
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Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?

TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technologically complicated…
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Cloud City: A Fourth Amendment Thought Experiment

Reading the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s rather tepid report on NSA surveillance under §702 of the FISA Amendments Act last night, I found myself thinking…
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Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Releases Report on Section 702 Surveillance (Full Text)

On Tuesday evening, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)—an independent body within the Executive Branch—released a major report concerning the National…
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FAA Section 702 developments

Back in February, I posted about the first brief on the merits challenging the constitutionality of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, in the criminal case against…
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New Editors’ Picks Reading List: IHRL on Privacy and Surveillance

As regular readers will likely recall, in recent weeks there has been much discussion here on the pages of Just Security (and elsewhere) on important questions regarding the extraterritorial…
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UN Human Rights Committee Says ICCPR Applies to Extraterritorial Surveillance: But is that so novel?

[Editor’s Note: John Bellinger over at Lawfare replied to the following post. And Ryan has a new post, partly in response to John.] A major development in today’s UN Human…
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An End to Dragnet Surveillance?

The New York Times report that President Obama will call for an end to the bulk collection of American’s telephone metadata is yet further vindication for Edward Snowden in particular,…
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PCLOB Hearing on Section 702 Authorities

Today, the PLCOB is holding a hearing on programs authorized under Section 702 of FISA.  The hearing can be watched live on C-SPAN2.  Written testimony of the witnesses is linked…
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The PCLOB Report and the Need for Executive Branch Constitutional Enforcement

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been both praised and criticized for the conclusions of its recent report on NSA bulk metadata collection: that the program…
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Information Cascades and Intelligence Oversight

Sen. Blumenthal opened a recent surveillance oversight hearing by hammering an important point from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s thorough report on the…
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Members of the PCLOB Testifying Before the Senate Judiciary Committee

This morning at 10:00am, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on “The Report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Reforms to the Section…
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