Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

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The Secret Sharer

Jane Mayer | The New Yorker | May 23, 2013

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being an enemy of the state... Read More »

The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant

Glenn Greenwald and James Ball | The Guardian | June 20, 2013

Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication Read More »

What The AP Subpoena Scandal Means For Your Electronic Privacy

Brian Fung | Nextgov | May 15, 2013

The Justice Department’s snooping on journalists working for the Associated Press is an abuse of power in the broadest sense. But one reason the whole episode is controversial at all is because the Obama administration technically broke no rules. Read More »

Why We Should Care About What The NSA May Or May Not Be Doing

Jenn Webb | O'Reilly Strata | June 14, 2013

Response to NSA data mining and the troubling lack of technical details, Facebook's Open Compute data center, and local police are growing their own DNA databases. Read More »