EFF has produced a great timeline of NSA’s domestic spying, here.
Category: U.S.
Oregon Senate approves bill to limit use of drones
Queenie Wong reports: The Senate approved a bill Monday that would limit the use of unmanned aircraft called “drones” by law enforcement and government bodies amid growing privacy concerns. House Bill 2710, which passed on a 23-5 vote, was sent back to the House for concurrence on changes made to the bill. Read more on…
Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Declassify FISA Court Opinions
Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), accompanied by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mark Begich (D-AK), Al Franken (D-MN), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced a bill that would put an end to the “secret law” governing controversial government surveillance programs. This bill would require the Attorney…
Does the Fourth Amendment regulate the NSA’s analysis of call records? The FISC might have ruled it does.
Babak Siavoshy has this commentary on Concurring Opinions: A striking (and underreported) feature of the NSA’s recently-revealed surveillance programs is the government’s practice of seeking court orders for theanalysis and querying of telephony metadata acquired under the program. As Orin Kerr pointed out last week, the DNI director’s statement about the NSA programs states that a reasonable suspicion standard governs government “queries”…