Surveillance

It is imperative that States and their citizens question how much freedom and privacy should be sacrificed to limit the impact of this pandemic.

"Government officials need to listen to stakeholders and technologists who are not trying to promote private companies’ interests in infection control programs."

Now is the time to be vigilant for attempts to leverage the crisis to obtain or retain powers that unnecessarily infringe on rights and liberties.

While the pandemic requires strong responses, we need to ensure that States do not normalize oppressive surveillance and undermine human rights more widely, including the right…

A series of recommendations could position amici to make forceful civil liberties and privacy arguments, effecting change from within the FISA court system.

What will the Justice Department do in response to what it's learned about the FBI’s flawed application to wiretap Carter Page?

Critics of FISA on both the left and the right are seizing on the DOJ inspector general's report as an opportunity to significantly alter FISA.

[Just Security is publishing a series on concrete proposals for FISA reform. This series is in conjunction with a public event that we are organizing with the Reiss Center on…

Over at Stanford CIS blog, Albert Gidari takes aim at the wiretap-related provisions in the US-UK CLOUD Act Agreement – which Peter Swire and I wrote about separately here. He…

Last week's FISA Court opinions provide even more evidence that the current system fails to adequately protect Americans’ privacy.

Part II discusses the the FBI’s improper queries of Section 702 communications—as well as the FISA Court’s unsatisfactory solution for bringing the FBI into compliance with…

This is now the fourth major FISA Court opinion on Section 702 in 10 years documenting substantial non-compliance with the rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy.