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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C), with Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly (R) and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc (L) speaks at a lectern in front of 6 Canadian flags during a press conference

Congress Should Protect Americans from Transnational Repression

U.S. Congress should support the Transnational Repression Reporting Act to make clear that cross-border authoritarian repression will not be tolerated in the United States.
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Telegram’s Security Sham

Its track record and transparency practices, as well as the testimony of researchers, make it plain its claims of security are not to be trusted.
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The UN Cybercrime Convention: Analyzing the Risks to Human Rights and Global Privacy

A detailed analysis of the human rights and digital privacy implications of the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime.
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Warrantless “Defensive” Searches of FISA Section 702 Data Violate the Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment requires that queries of the FISA Section 702 database for information about U.S. persons be performed pursuant to a court order, regardless of whether the…
Members of the House (Select) Intelligence Committee listen during a hearing at the Cannon Office Building on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. Leaders from the U.S. intelligence community are participating in hearings with both the Senate and House intelligence committees to lay out their perceived global threats to the United States.

Time for U.S. Intelligence to Ask: How Did We Alienate so Many Americans?

"Two years before the next round of debate over Section 702, an earlier, deeper, and more wide-ranging conversation needs to take place between the intelligence and civil liberties…
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AI at the Border: Racialized Impacts and Implications

The use of AI in immigration enforcement poses a growing risk to marginalized communities.

Assessing the Intelligence Community’s Policy Framework for Commercially Available Information

The ODNI's framework on CAI still gives the intelligence community too much discretion in determining how certain principles are applied.
The seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seen on the hat of a U.S. Border Patrol agent

As DHS Implements New AI Technologies, It Must Overcome Old Shortcomings

The DHS can either carry forward in its history of bias or transparently mitigate the harmful impacts of AI on rights and privacy.
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An Oversight Model for AI in National Security: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Congress must create an AI oversight authority with the mandate and resources to build safeguards into these systems from the outset.
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The SAFE Act Is No “Compromise” and Won’t Leave Americans Safer

The SAFE Act would renew Section 702 of FISA, but only with changes that seriously undermine its agility and value as an indispensable foreign intelligence collection tool.
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The Year(s) of Section 702 Reform, Part VI: (Another) Looming Deadline

Congress once again has an opportunity — and an obligation — to enact much-needed surveillance reforms to protect Americans’ privacy while ensuring that intelligence agencies…
U.S. President Joe Biden holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House

Bringing Transparency to National Security Uses of Artificial Intelligence

The Biden administration should ensure that AI systems do not proliferate in secret under the banner of "national security."
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