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Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15
“The Patriot Act turns 15 today, but that’s nothing to celebrate.” Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15, by Kate Tummarello, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (October 26, 2016). Number 4: Surveillance under the Patriot Act goes far beyond your phone company – Section 215 dramatically expanded the “business records” provision of the Foreign Intelligence […]
Appeals court ruling on the NSA collection of phone records
UPDATED (5/8/2015) Concurring opinion added. News of the recent ruling by a federal appeals court that the National Security Agency’s collection of millions of Americans’ phone records violates the Patriot Act is widely available. Below are the links to a couple of good accounts of the ruling and the ruling itself. N.S.A. Phone Data Collection […]
Not Your Grandmother’s Librarian
The Cover story of The Nation this weeks is about librarians battling for privacy. Librarians Versus the NSA, by Zoë Carpenter, The Nation (May 6, 2015, the May 25, 2015 edition). Amy Sonnie, a librarian and activist in Oakland, told me that there’s a debate within the profession about whether librarianship is, or should be, […]
Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board releases report on NSA bulk telephone records program
The Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has released its report on the National Security Agency’s program of collecting bulk phone call records. Thirteen U.S. Senators asked the PCLOB to investigate two NSA programs (referred to as section 215 and 702 of the USA PATRIOT Act) and the operation of the FISA court. The […]
PATRIOT Act anniversary roundup
The [w:USA PATRIOT Act] (aka Public Law 107-56) turned 10 last week. The ACLU did a great roundup including a telling infographic that was just too big to post here. Be sure to check it out.
So. The Patriot Act turned 10 on Wednesday, October 26, 2011. And all we got were violations of our civil liberties. Well, that and this really awesome infographic, which contains information like this fun fact: Did you know that under the relaxed National Security Letter (NSL) standards in the Patriot Act, between 2003 and 2005, the FBI issued 143,074 NSLs, and reported a big, whopping zero terrorism prosecutions as a result? Zero, zilch, none, nada. So what was the FBI using their shiny, new terrorism-fighting-intelligence-gathering powers for? Well, they did refer 17 criminal money laundering cases, 17 immigration-related cases, and 19 fraud cases. And the other 143,021 NSLs? Well, thanks to the gag order that accompanies them, the innocent people whose personal information was sought from third parties will never know.Continue reading
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