Rainey Reitman of EFF writes: Over July 4th, thousands of people in cities across the United States rallied in defense of the Fourth Amendment. Tomorrow, Restore the Fourth – the grassroots, nonpartisan movement supporting the Fourth Amendment and opposing NSA spying – is taking the battle to the phones. A number of Restore the Fourth chapters…
Category: U.S.
The NSA’s Surveillance Is Unconstitutional – OpEd
A professor of constitutional law, Randy E. Barnett writes: Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens. We’ve also learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the constitutionality of…
Discovering Names Of Secret NSA Surveillance Programs Via LinkedIn
Mike Masnick writes: So, over the weekend, the Washington Post revealed some of the code names for various NSA surveillance programs, including NUCLEON, MARINA and MAINWAY. Chris Soghoian haspointed out that a quick LinkedIn search for profiles of people in Maryland with codenames like MARINA and NUCLEON happen to turn up profiles like this one which appear to reveal more…
Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA requests
Brandon Bailey reports: In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate with a controversial government data-gathering effort. Releasing those files would demonstrate that Yahoo “objected strenuously” to government demands…