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09
2020
EPIC
September 2, 2020The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
ruled today that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone call metadata violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was likely unconstitutional. EPIC and a coalition of groups filed an
amicus brief in the case,
United States v. Moalin, arguing that call metadata is protected under the Fourth Amendment. “We hold that the telephony metadata collection program exceeded the scope of Congress’s [FISA] authorization,” the Ninth Circuit wrote. The court rejected the argument that individuals lack a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in call metadata simply because the data is held by phone companies. The public is “likely to perceive as private several years’ worth of telephony metadata collected on an ongoing, daily basis—as demonstrated by the public outcry following the revelation of the metadata collection program,” the court explained. The court cited to the coalition amicus brief and to the
work of EPIC advisory board member
Laura K. Donohue. However, the court declined in this particular case to exclude the unlawfully collected metadata as evidence. In
In re EPIC, EPIC petitioned the Supreme Court to end the NSA’s bulk phone record collection program, which occurred with the 2015 passage of the
USA Freedom Act.
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Categories : Constitutional law, Federal law, NSA, Surveillance
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08
2020
Cade Metz, Erin Griffith and Kate Conger
New York Times
August 26, 2020
“Offering software — and, crucially, teams of engineers that customize the software — Palantir helps organizations make sense of vast amounts of data. It helps gather information from various sources like internet traffic and cellphone records and analyzes that information. It puts those disparate pieces together into something that makes sense to its users, like a visual display.”
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Categories : Crossed Streams: Gov + Commercial, Data Mining, FIP 1: No secret collections, Privacy, private/corporate surveillance, Surveillance
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08
2020
New York Times
Adam Satariano
May 6, 2020
On April 23, I started work at 8:49 a.m., reading and responding to emails, browsing the news and scrolling Twitter. At 9:14 a.m., I made changes to an upcoming story and read through interview notes. By 10:09 a.m., work momentum lost, I read about the Irish village where Matt Damon was living out the quarantine.
All of these details — from the websites I visited to my GPS coordinates — were available for my boss to review.
Here’s why: With millions of us working from home in the coronavirus pandemic, companies are hunting for ways to ensure that we are doing what we are supposed to. Demand has surged for software that can monitor employees, with programs tracking the words we type, snapping pictures with our computer cameras and giving our managers rankings of who is spending too much time on Facebook and not enough on Excel.
The technology raises thorny privacy questions about where employers draw the line between maintaining productivity from a homebound work force and creepy surveillance. To try to answer them, I turned the spylike software on myself.
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Categories : FIP 3: One use, FIP 4: Repair, Privacy, private/corporate surveillance
19
08
2020
Epic
May 15, 2020The Senate voted today to pass an
amended version of the
USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020, which was passed by the House in March. The bill would end the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata program and make further reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Senate agreed this week to further amendments by Senators Lee and Leahy that expand FISA protections, but rejected amendments proposed by Senators Wyden and Daines that would have protected Americans’ internet browsing and search histories. The adopted
Leahy/Lee amendment strengthens the role of “amici curiae,” who are independent, expert advisors to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, by increasing their access to information, their power to raise issues with the Court, and the number of cases they are appointed in. Since amendments were adopted, the bill now returns to the House of Representatives for consideration. Members of both parties have expressed support for reform of the controversial NSA surveillance program. EPIC closely
tracks the use of FISA authority. EPIC has advocated for significant
FISA reforms, and recently advised Congress to
limit Section 702 surveillance and to allow
Section 215 to expire.
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Categories : FISA court, NSA, Surveillance
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