Supreme Court Punts on Data Privacy Case, Thanks to the Terrible CLOUD Act
Lawmakers passed a bill requiring American firms to comply with warrants for data stored overseas, ending a legal fight.
Lawmakers passed a bill requiring American firms to comply with warrants for data stored overseas, ending a legal fight.
The now working mother says the fine is bizarre, unfair.
The CLOUD Act improves data sharing with governments by reducing oversight.
Judge allows until summer for an unprecedented disclosure of warrant info from one of our most secretive courts.
The former Director of National Intelligence lied under oath about warrantless NSA spying on American citizens.
Lawmakers will advance legislation that expands the power of the feds to snoop on American citizens.
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
Hours later he walks it back.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
Do we need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to drive?
Short extension of FISA snooping powers shoved into temporary spending bill.
This FISA renewal bill would essentially gut the Fourth Amendment.
Senators demand discussion of protections for Americans against unwarranted snooping.
Can they get past the FBI vs. Trump narrative to talk about snooping on the rest of us?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
Congress must make a choice before the end of the year on the level of protections Americans get from unwarranted snooping.
Every attempt to restrain and reform unwarranted domestic surveillance batted away.
Another possible standoff where officials want to compromise everybody's data security.
House leadership rejects stronger protections shielding Americans from unwarranted snooping.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
The Fourth Amendment matters to some legislators.
What Rosenstein wants would threaten data security. That's hardly responsible.
Microsoft resisted order for emails on servers in Ireland.
The web host can redact user info unless the Justice Department provides evidence of criminal activity.
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
Transparency about behavior of government employees is not a violation of due process.
Homeland Security officials seize and snoop into thousands of phones and laptops without any evidence of criminal activity.
FBI, Intel want broad snooping powers to stay intact. That may not be an option.
Even other law enforcement agencies are throwing shade.
A fishing expedition to try to track down anybody who disrupted Inauguration Day events in D.C.
On the pretext of texting safety, they want to give cops free rein to suspend licenses and fine drivers without charges or conviction.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
More than 150 million phone call records of Americans were collected in 2016.
If Susan Rice's request to unmask Americans' names was legal, should the rules be changed?
Surveillance, data collection and biometrics all topic of debate.
White House does not want federal surveillance authorities reformed.
Court decisions have decimated Fourth Amendment protections for people on the edges of the country.
The 'Email Privacy Act' is back, but the Senate is still a barrier.
Terrorism is only a real threat if it frightens us into destroying our liberties.
More federal employees will have access to raw intel data gathered without warrants.
Justice Dept. threatens intervention to stop unconstituional 'investigative holds.'
Amazon refusing to turn over Echo digital assistant voice recordings in murder investigation.
Amid debate over encryption access, feds try to just sneak right through.
The cellphone tracking instrument has had questionable success.