President Obama's Parting Shot at Personal Freedom
To make things more convenient for the government, the Obama administration makes it easier for agencies to spy on citizens.
FISA
The Fourth Amendment and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.
Edward Snowden: The Individual Is More Powerful Today Than Ever Before.
The national security whistleblower talks to the Free State Project from an undisclosed location in Russia.
Intelligence Court Shrugs at Ruling Against Mass Surveillance, Temporarily Restores NSA Authority for Metadata Collection
A few more months of privacy violations permitted.
House Votes to Slam Some Surveillance 'Back Doors' Shut
Amendment passes to reduce some additional snooping authorities on Americans, block federal efforts to weaken encryption.
The USA Freedom Act Passes! Senate Approves Restrictions on Surveillance Against Americans.
Modest, but actual, scaling back on metadata collection authorities.
Will McConnell's Amendments Gut Surveillance Reform?
The Senate majority leader tries to kill FISA Court transparency.
New Effort to Scale Back NSA Surveillance Passes House Judiciary Committee
USA Freedom Act not nearly as strong as privacy advocates would like, but they're supporting it anyway.
NSA Admits to Wrongdoing—What Now?
The Director of National Intelligence lied to a congressional committee about the most massive Fourth Amendment violation in history. Will he be prosecuted?
Google Releases New Transparency Figures
After government eases up restrictions on reporting how often they're requesting data about users
Feds Offer Tech Companies Possibility of a Little More Surveillance Transparency
Here, have some delicious crumbs
The Surveillance State Lives
In sizing up Obama's "reforms" of the indiscriminate gathering of data on every American, remember this: Politicians will do everything they can get away with in pursuit of their own agenda.
White House Drops Objections to Publishing FISA Court Metadata Authorization
ACLU had filed suit to try to force it out
Federal Judge Finally Acknowledges NSA is "Almost Orwellian"
This is the first meaningful judicial review of the agency
Other Civil Liberties Abuses Used to Justify NSA Data Collections
Sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug tests, et cetera
Here's Your Checks and Balances: NSA 'Continually' and 'Systematically' Violated FISA Court Limits
But it's fine because officials were informed
The NSA Reform Bill That Isn't Pushes Forward
The bill by the woman who loves (most) NSA surveillance fails to reform NSA surveillance. Imagine that.
FISA Court Changes Many Surveillance Requests Before Approval
Fighting back at reputation as a "rubber stamp" for NSA
Lawmakers Introduce Surveillance Reform Package
Would prohibit bulk record collection, install an advocate to argue before FISC
DOJ Never Investigated Ethics Complaints by FISA Judges
Over misleading statements about extent of NSA surveillance
No Telecom Companies Have Ever Challenged Mass Data Collection Orders
Despite ability to do so
Latest FISA Court Declassification Shows an Adversarial System with No Willing Adversaries
Telecom companies had ability to challenge mass metadata collections but never did
FISA Court Orders More Document Declassification Reviews
Regarding opinions on the constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act
Tech Firms Seek Permission to Release More Federal Data Inquiry Info
Government's behavior is breeding mistrust of companies
Gary Hart, Walter Mondale Register Objections to NSA Surveillance
Say FISA was meant to restrict spying, not increase it
Tech Companies Paid Millions for NSA Compliance Costs
Result of FISA court demands to better separate domestic communications
Analysis: Obama Doesn't Seem to See Problems with NSA
Did he even read the part where the FISA court didn't know how certain processes worked for years?
The FISA Court Didn't Even Know NSA Was Collecting Some Domestic Communications
FISA Court memo release shows the overseeing agency didn't know all the details of how surveillance actually worked
NSA Agents Told to Conceal Information from Overseers
Provide generic info when asking for permission to surveil from FISA court
Establishment Republicans Worried FISA "Privacy Advocate" Will Hamper Secret Court's Work
clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
ISP Head Reveals What It's Like To Receive a Secret Order To Snoop on a Customer
It's creepy, that's what it is
Feds Break Promise To Ease Challenges to Warrantless Wiretapping
They keep surveillance secret so nobody has a chance to object
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Will Provide a Glimpse of Its Workings
We'll get a peek at procedures in Microsoft's and Google's challenges to snooping
