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Two Developments re Section 215: (i) Changes to the Section 215 Program and (ii) Program’s Scope is Currently More Limited than Originally Thought

In his speech last month on the U.S. signals intelligence programs, President Obama “directed the Attorney General to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…
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Reforming The Section 702 Dragnet (Part 1)

The consensus is clear that spying on innocent Americans section 215 of the Patriot Act is flatly illegal.  The Center for Democracy and Technology said it, Christopher Sprigman…
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Privacy Board Debunks Purported Justification for NSA’s Phone-Records Dragnet

The just-released report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is rigorous and well-written, and it’s worth reading in its entirety.  One section warranting particular…
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PCLOB Releases Report, Recommends Government End §215 Program

Today, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released its report (full text) on the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection program under Section 215…
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Overview of Proposals to Reform Signals Intelligence Programs in Today’s Speech by the President

In today’s speech on Signals Intelligence Programs, President Obama outlined a number of “concrete and substantial reforms that [the] Administration intends to adopt…
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Connecting the Dots: Assessing the Effectiveness of Bulk Phone Records Collection

[Editor’s note: This morning we are enthusiastic to have the opportunity to publish on Just Security an extremely insightful and thoughtful paper on the effectiveness of…
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Could the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program Have Prevented 9/11? Judge William Pauley v. Lawrence Wright

In an earlier post, I proposed some analytic tools for evaluating the effectiveness of the NSA’s telephony metadata program – in light of recommendations by the President’s…
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FISC Approves Application to Renew Telephony Metadata Program [UPDATED]

Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified and announced that the FISC has approved the government’s application to renew the telephony metadata…
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How to Evaluate Whether the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program Makes Us Safer (and What Proponents and Opponents Get Wrong)

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the…
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Center for National Security Studies’ Latest Filing for Amici Curiae in Section 215 Proceedings

On Friday, the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) filed its latest pleading in its efforts to have the FISC enable third-party persons or organizations to submit amici…
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The Government’s Initial Supreme Court Filing on the Section 215 “Telephony Records Program”

On Friday the government filed its brief in opposition to the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s mandamus petition to the Supreme Court, No. 13-58, in which EPIC is challenging…
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“Relevance” at the Royale Inn

The NSA’s controversial call records program is predicated on the extraordinary premise that the phone logs of nearly all Americans are “relevant” to an intelligence…
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