Paul Elias of AP reports: The Obama administration is releasing hundreds of previously classified documents detailing activities of the country’s long-secret spy court that authorizes domestic surveillance programs. In a court filing last week, the U.S. Department of Justice said it will turn over the documents to the Electronic Frontier Foundation by Tuesday. EFF officials…
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Google amends motion to reveal more FISC statistics; Yahoo and Facebook also sue
Google has filed an amended motion seeking declaratory judgment that it has a First Amendment right to publish more information about orders it receives from the FISA court (FISC). The motion (pdf, via Cryptome) was filed yesterday. Cryptome has also uploaded Yahoo’s motion and Facebook’s motion.
New details in how the feds take laptops at border
Anne Flaherty of AP reports: Newly disclosed U.S. government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security Department’s practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting a judge’s approval. The documents published Monday describe the case of David House, a young computer programmer…
Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests
Ewen MacAskill reports: Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the…