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Congress considers Patriot Act repeal as FCC commissioner moves to block net neutrality
Two events worth noting took place this week on Capitol Hill. First, Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wisc) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) reintroduced the Surveillance State …
When The FISA Court Rejects A Surveillance Request, The FBI Just Issues A National Security Letter Instead
We’ve talked quite a bit about National Security Letters (NSLs) and how the FBI/DOJ regularly abused them to get just about any information the …
How Congress Secretly Just Legitimized Questionable NSA Mass Surveillance Tool
We recently noted that, despite it passing overwhelmingly, Congress quietly deleted a key bit of NSA reform that would have blocked the agency from …
Facebook reports 24% hike in govt data requests
Government requests for Facebook user data shot up nearly a quarter worldwide in the first six months of 2014 over the second half of …
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