by PPJC Admin2 | May 11, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Jenna McLaughlin The Intercept_ The Senate Judiciary Committee summoned a handful of cybersecurity, privacy, and national security experts on Tuesday to lay out the pros and cons of reauthorizing the law the NSA says authorizes it to collect hundreds of millions of...
by TD Daniell | June 4, 2015 | Current News
Norman Solomon ExposeFacts.org The morning after final passage of the USA Freedom Act, while some foes of mass surveillance were celebrating, Thomas Drake sounded decidedly glum. The new law, he told me, is “a new spy program.” It restarts some of the worst aspects of...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 29, 2015 | PPJC Picks
Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots Washington Markup Blog / ACLU Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, there was a seismic shift in the U.S. Congress. As the Senate deadlocked over what...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 28, 2015 | PPJC Picks
By Spencer Ackerman The Guardian For all the acrimony over the future contours of US domestic surveillance, a consensus has emerged: the expiring portions of the Patriot Act that do not govern the mass collection of US phone records are critical counter-terrorism...
by PPJC Admin2 | November 7, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic The Patriot Act substantially expires in May 2015. When the new Congress takes up its reauthorization, mere months after convening, members will be forced to decide what to do about Section 215 of the law, the provision cited by the...
