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• Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU : Via American Civil Liberties Union . FISA Amendments Act Must Be Subject To Judicial Review FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief late Wednesday ...
  5 days ago

• Brandon Mayfield Gets Hosed By The 9th Circuit

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 700
  As Fatster noticed , the Ninth Circuit has ruled against Brandon Mayfield on his attempt to hold the PATRIOT Act declared unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. Mayfield was a former suspect in the 2004 Madrid train bombings. After the Madrid bombings, the Spanish National Police (“SNP”) recovered ...
  1 week ago

• In Honor of Obama’s Nobel “Peace Through War” Prize, Donate to the ACLU

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 700
  I was going to make this pitch somewhat differently. But as the jist of Obama’s “Peace through War” speech has sunk in today, I’ve just gotten more and more frustrated. First some background. As Glenn points out , the ACLU is in a whole bunch of hurt right now after their biggest single donor told them that ...
  1 week ago

• Sotomayor Refuses to Give Government Privilege for Me But Not for Thee

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 700
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first opinion , released yesterday, is interesting for several reasons. Clarence Thomas was a predictable asshole to her about her opinion. (h/t fatster) It was the first time anyone has used the phrase “undocumented immigrant” in a SCOTUS opinion. But I’m interested in the ...
  1 week ago

• FBI Asks William Webster to Look Closer at Nidal Hasan Analysis

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 700
  The WaPo reports that the FBI has appointed William Webster to review the FBI’s response to Nidal Hasan’s actions leading up to the Fort Hood shootings. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has asked former director and retired federal judge William H. Webster to conduct an independent review of the bureau’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• FISA Amendments Act Has Failed Completely To Find Bin Laden

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  The Homeland Security crows tells us that laws like the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act are necessary because they enable the government to collect vital information about terrorists who want to destroy the United States, terrorists like Osama Bin Laden and his Al Quaeda gang. The FISA Amendments Act and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Internet and Telcom Companies Dont Want You to Know How Much they Charge to Violate Your Privacy

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Via AmericaBlog , this story from Wired is mind-bogglingly infuriating : Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate ...
  2 weeks ago

• I STILL HATE AT & T ALWAYS!

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  This is a screenshot from internally at AT & T the day they stole our Fourth Amendment. Since AT & T the sickening filth were all in a tizzy because H.R.6403 was being voted on that day. If we won and retained our Fourth Amendment the Predators known as AT&T with their equipment recently ripped from 1741 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Keys to Surveillance Success: Location, Location, Location

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 753
  The invaluable Chris Soghoian has posted some illuminating—and sobering—information on the scope of surveillance being carried out with the assistance of telecommunications providers.  The entire panel discussion from this year’s ISS World surveillance conference is well worth listening to in full, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• 8 Million Spying Requests For GPS To Nextel From Govt.

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  This afternoon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation brings our attention to some work by Christopher Soghoian, who claims to have attended an “ISS World Conference” (Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception, Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Gathering) this October as a graduate student at ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Online Movement Against Warrantless Spying, 2008 and Now

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  In the 6-day period between July 2 and July 7 2008, as the Senate prepared to pass a regime of warrantless surveillance under the auspices of the FISA Amendments Act , ten thousand Americans added their names to a declaration opposing the legislation and calling upon presidential candidate Barack Obama to vote ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  November 5th, 2009 Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee Deeplink by Kevin Bankston November 5th, 2009 Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee Deeplink by Kevin Bankston After a long two days of legislative battle, the House ...
  3 weeks ago

• EFF Obtains Records From Behind-The-Scenes Negotiations on TelecomImmunity

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  November 12th, 2009 EFF Obtains Records from Behind-the-Scenes Negotiations on Telecom Immunity Partial Document Release from Government Posted on EFF’s Website San Francisco, CA – Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted thousands of pages of records detailing behind-the-scenes negotiations between ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sign Open Letter to Barack Obama: Roll Back the Surveillance State

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has posted an open letter written to Barack Obama on the subject of spreading surveillance by the United States Government. The letter reads: Dear President Obama, In your response to Get FISA Right’s July 2008 Open Letter on my.barackobama.com, you promised to run “a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eff.org Arm Yourselves Electronically, Transparency Schmansparency! Learn NOW! dig this ! See what your Hi Def Definitely Does To YOU!

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  May 27th, 2008 Watching the Detectors Deeplink by Danny O’Brien In the absence of NBC or Microsoft coming clean about what they’ve done – what flags NBC sent, and what flags Microsoft obeys, we’ve been doing some detective work of our own — and we’d like your help. NBC have already said that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  By all means, pander to the “tough on terror” idiots who think so little of their liberties. NEW YORK – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Tap NSA Rather than FISA to Start the Search for Terrorists

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978 ( Public Law 95-511 ) and later amended by the Patriot Act. It is at the center of the controversy concerning domestic spying by the NSA. It was passed after revelations of massive domestic spying ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dennis Moore A Sometime Progressive

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 429
  In the current session of Congress, Dennis Moore has earned only a 46 percent progressive rating. That relatively low rating is due mostly to a failure to support important progressive pieces of legislation.
  4 weeks ago

• What’s Missing from the EFF Document Dump: Whitehouse’s Declassification Requests

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 700
  I’m still plugging away on the EFF Document Dump . But before I delve into the next chunk of emails, I want to note something that hasn’t, thus far, shown up in the document dump (and almost certainly should have been included in the communications between Congress and OLC): Two separate requests (or one extended ...
  4 weeks ago

• An open letter to President Obama on the Patriot Act (DRAFT)

  
  Liminal states — Authority: 109
  Draft! Work in progress!  Feedback welcome! The open letter will be published Monday evening, and this will be one of many posts announcing it. Final version intended for Pam’s House Blend Dear President Obama, In response to Get FISA Right’s July 2008 Open Letter , you promised to run “a ...
  4 weeks ago

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