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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permits the U.S. government to engage in mass, warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications, including phone calls, texts, emails, social media messages, and web browsing.
Five years ago this month, news organizations broke stories about federal government surveillance of phone calls and electronic communications of U.S. and foreign citizens, based on classified documents leaked by then-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023, introduced by Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Lee (R-UT) in the Senate and Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) in the House, would be the most significant advancement of Americans’ privacy rights since FISA itself was enacted in 1978.
The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications.
Through Upstream surveillance, the U.S. government copies and searches the contents of almost all international — and many domestic — text-based internet communications. The suit was brought on behalf of nine educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, operator of one of the most-visited ...
The Guiding Principles are intended to prevent the misuse of surveillance technologies by governments to enable human rights abuses in three main areas: The use of Internet controls; Pairing video surveillance with artificial intelligence-driven tools; and; The use of big data analytic tools.
Congress’s failure to enact essential reforms is disappointing given recent disclosures about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency use this law to surveil Americans, especially historically marginalized communities.
The number of times the National Security Agency identified Americans or U.S. entities last year in intelligence reports containing information from a high-profile warrantless surveillance...
GENEVA (16 September 2022) – People’s right to privacy is coming under ever greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital technologies whose features make them formidable tools for surveillance, control and oppression, a new UN report has warned.
Privacy and Surveillance. The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.