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Office of Director of National Intelligence Releases FISA Section 702 Documents
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released several sets of documents relating to FISA Section 702. The documents are too numerous to embed in this post, but are linked below by cate... -
Digital Divergence: How Digital Network Technology Threatens both Privacy and Security
The National Constitution Center is hosting an event in Philadelphia on May 10, entitled “Digital Privacy in the 21st Century.” It features a keynote address from Jeffrey Rosen, the President and CEO of... -
ODNI's 2016 Transparency Report: A Summary
On Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its fourth Annual Statistical Transparency Report relating to the use of national security authorities. The report is based... -
Today’s Big News About “Backdoor Searches”
One of the most hotly debated aspects of Section 702 is the practice of querying 702-acquired data using U.S.-person identifiers—in particular, queries conducted by the FBI in non-national-security crimi... -
Director of National Intelligence Releases 2016 Transparency Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its annual transparency report regarding use of national security authorities for calendar year 2016, available here and below. Lawfare wi... -
The End of “About” Collection under Section 702
As Bobby and others have already noted, the NSA announced Friday that it is ending “about” collection under Section 702’s upstream component. -
Can NSA Drop "About" Collection Without Gutting "To/From" Collection?
The mystery as to why there was no Section 702 application or certification reported for 2016 has now been solved (I'm assuming readers know today's big 702 news, flagged by Quinta here, and as explored ... -
NSA Stops "About" Collection
According to a New York Times report by Charlie Savage, the National Security Agency is ceasing to conduct "about" collection under Section 702 due to difficulty in complying with regulations imposed by ... -
A Summary of the 2016 FISA Court Report
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today released its statutorily mandated annual report on activities of the FISA courts. -
2016 FISA Court Report Released
The government has released the second annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts as required by the USA F... -
China's New Guidance Further Restricts the Transfer of Digital Information
Beijing has published a bevy of laws, regulations, and policy statements over the past six months on cyber governance (here, here, and here). -
Microsoft Joins Other Tech Companies by Releasing 2014 National Security Letter
Yesterday morning, Microsoft released, along with its most recent biannual transparency reports, a 2014 National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI which sought “data belonging to a customer of our consu...
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