Julian Hattem reports: The federal court overseeing the country’s spy agencies renewed an order Friday allowing the National Security Agency to collect phone records of people in the United States. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s renewal of the contested program, authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, comes as lawmakers continue to debate reform…
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Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
Kim Zetter reports: Police in Florida have, at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, been deliberately deceiving judges and defendants about their use of a controversial surveillance tool to track suspects, according to newly obtained emails. At the request of the Marshals Service, the officers using so-called stingrays have been routinely telling judges, in…
Congress Decides This Week Whether to Shut the NSA Backdoor: Here’s How You Can Help
Nadia Kayyali writes: The NSA may seem like an intimidating giant, but it has a serious Achilles’ heel— the enormous budget it claims from taxpayer dollars every year. While change to the actual words of the laws that govern NSA surveillance seems to be a difficult task, a group of representatives have decided to take the battle to…
State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses
Missed posting this while waiting for DNS propagation, but thankfully, Joe Cadillic reminded me. Tim Cushing writes: The government does enjoy installing cameras pretty much everywhere it can do so with a minimum of complaints. If it thinks there might be some controversy, it just buries the details until after the fact. Eugene Volokh has a roundup of new places state governments…