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Bipartisan Senate Duo Presses Obama to Revitalize USA Freedom Act
The gutted version of the USA Freedom Act that passed the House would fail to bring transparency to the federal government’s surveillance activities. That is, unless, the...
Huge Privacy Win: Warrants Now Required for Searching Arrestees’ Mobile Phones
A victory for the smartphone-toting arrestee, and commonsense. Police almost always have to get a warrant before intruding into our private spaces. That’s because courts...
Tell Congress to Protect your Data from Warrantless Searches
Police and other law enforcement can conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ emails, cloud storage, and other digital effects, because our law is outdated. Lawmakers wrote...
House Passes Lofgren-Massie Amendment to Help Rein in NSA
The NSA collects emails and browsing and chat histories of Americans and searches the information without a warrant under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments...
Privacy Advocates tell Congress: Fix Watered-down USA Freedom Act!
In its original version, the USA Freedom Act represented an important step toward ending the government’s bulk collection of data about individuals. Unfortunately, the Rules...