A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment
but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal. — www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... @eff.org :...
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …
The US Senate is set to vote on RISAA, which reauthorizes FISA's Section 702 and could force new types of businesses to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant
Critics on Capitol Hill are calling it the “Stasi provision” … X: @savingprivacy : 1/ 🚨🚨🚨WATCH: Senator @RonWyden's floor speech on a terrifying provision in the FISA Section 702 bill (RISAA) that wil...
NSA Director Paul Nakasone urges Congress to renew the FISA's Section 702, set to expire in 2023, saying the surveillance law protects the US from cyberattacks
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop :
Officials say SolarWinds hackers succeeded in part because NSA is barred from monitoring domestic networks, leading to calls for new spying powers for the NSA
Kim Zetter / Zero Day : Tweets: @kimzetter , @kimzetter , and @chicagocyber Tweets: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : I never submit my stories to Techmeme so this is a nice surprise to see my Substack story...
A bipartisan amendment to FISA to prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans' online browsing and search histories failed in the Senate by one vote, 59-37
Congressional privacy hawks scored a critical victory on Wednesday that deepens the uncertainty about the fate of expired federal surveillance powers.
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
FISA Court releases annual report for 2017: 1,147 surveillance requests in full and 391 requests with modification granted; a record 26 applications were denied
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet : Tweets: @kylegriffin1 Tweets: Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1 : The FISA court denied more surveillance orders during Trump's first year than in the court's 40-year history, acc...
Senate votes 60-38 to end debate on bill extending Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program through 2023, setting up a vote for final passage this week
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