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Key Parts of Patriot Act Expire Temporarily as Senate Moves Toward Limits on Spying
The government’s authority to sweep up vast quantities of phone records in the hunt for terrorists expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday after Senator Rand …
Critics blast NSA phone records bill as ‘fake reform’
A lopsided vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to rein in the National Security Agency’s domestic telephone records dragnet won muted …
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 …
The FBI’s Secret Surveillance Program Is About to Go on Trial
A federal appeals court this week will review whether the government can secretly conduct electronic surveillance on Americans without first obtaining a warrant. The …
Apple transparency reports allude to Patriot Act demands
Apple removed text from its latest transparency reports, which suggests that the company has received a top secret data demand. These so-called “warrant canaries” …
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