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Deeplinks Blog by Brendan Gilligan, Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn | April 11, 2024

Bad Amendments to Section 702 Have Failed (For Now)—What Happens Next?

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted against considering a largely bad bill that would have unacceptably expanded the tentacles of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, along with reauthorizing it and introducing some minor fixes.
The back of an NSA agent watching several screens and monitoring their communications and connection
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | September 22, 2023

Don’t Fall for the Intelligence Community’s Monster of the Week Justifications

In the beloved episodic television shows of yesteryear, the antagonists were often “monsters of the week”: villains who would show up for one episode and get vanquished by the heroes just in time for them to fight the new monster in the following episode. Keeping up with the...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | July 31, 2023

The White House Acknowledges the Pressure on Section 702, But Much More Reform is Needed

After months of continued public confirmation that Americans’ privacy is being violated by surveillance under Section 702, and widespread criticism from civil society, activists, surveillance-skeptical bipartisan congressional committees, and even the overly timid Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—a group of White House-appointed experts just flinched on renewing the law...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn, Andrew Crocker | May 19, 2023

10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For

On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. What came next were weeks of disclosures—and...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 18, 2022

New Surveillance Transparency Report Documents an Urgent Need for Change

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report disclosing the use of national security surveillance laws for the year 2021—and to no one’s surprise it documents the wide-ranging overreach of intelligence agencies and the continued misuse of surveillance authorities to spy on millions of Americans....

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Andrew Crocker | February 11, 2022

We Need Answers About the CIA’s Mass Surveillance

The Central Intelligence Agency has been collecting American’s private data without any oversight or even the minimal legal safeguards that apply to the NSA and FBI, an unconstitutional affront to our civil liberties. According to a declassified report released yesterday by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the...

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Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn, Matthew Guariglia | September 10, 2021

The Other 20-Year Anniversary: Freedom and Surveillance Post-9/11

The twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2021 are a good time to reflect on the world we’ve built since then. Those attacks caused incalculable heartbreak, anger and fear. But by now it is clear that far too many things that were put into place in the immediate...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn | June 30, 2021

PCLOB “Book Report” Fails to Investigate or Tell the Public the Truth About Domestic Mass Surveillance

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has concluded its six-year investigation into Executive Order 12333, one of the most sprawling and influential authorities that enables the U.S. government’s mass surveillance programs. The result is a bland, short summary of a classified report, as well as a justified,...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | May 6, 2021

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Rubber Stamps Mass Surveillance Under Section 702 - Again

As someone once said, “the Founders did not fight a revolution to gain the right to government agency protocols.” Well it was not just someone, it was Chief Justice John Roberts. He flatly rejected the government’s claim that agency protocols could solve the Fourth Amendment violations created by police...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | January 1, 2021

Litigation Against Mass NSA Surveillance: Year in Review 2020

EFF takes on fights for the long run, and some of our longest running legal fights are focused on bringing the National Security Agency within the rule of law, and batting back the arguments that the state secrets privilege should insulate the government from accountability for spying. EFF started these...

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