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Sen Paul Freezes Trump Nomination Over Section 702 Surveillance…

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Sen. Rand Paul is holding up the confirmation of a key national security official over concerns about a government surveillance program, an administration official confirmed to The Daily Beast. He has temporarily blocked John Demers –– currently Boeing’s assistant general counsel –– from being confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s powerful National […]

Decoding 702: What is Section 702?…

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Why can the U.S. government collect my emails? Under authority ostensibly granted by something called Section 702, the U.S. government routinely collects and searches the online communications of innocent Americans without a warrant through what are commonly called “upstream” and “PRISM” (now called “downstream”) surveillance. Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed as part of […]

Creepy: Family Finds Hidden Camera in Carnival Cruise Stateroom…

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A family from Florida is demanding answers from Carnival Cruise Line after finding a hidden camera behind their cabin’s television during an October vacation. The device was reportedly discovered by the family’s father during an allergy attack, after he moved the TV to inspect for dust. Sticking out from the wires, he said, was a […]

CFPB’s ‘NSA-Like’ Surveillance in Limbo with Leadership Tussle…

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The fight for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may have significant effects on the bureau’s mass acquisition of private financial records, according to privacy advocates. The CFPB pools vast quantities of data for research purposes, including millions of people’s credit card records, which it says are anonymized, commercially available and tracked to help […]

U.S. Domestic, er, Foreign Spying Bill Progresses Through Congress…

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Thought the Snowden leaks would make things better? Joke’s on you. A draft law protecting one of the US government’s spying programs has passed through the initial markup stage in the Congress, providing one more opportunity to witness the “up is down” world in which American politics currently resides. The USA Liberty Act put forward […]

The Senate Intelligence Committee 702 Bill Is a Domestic Spying Bill…

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Contrary to what you’re reading about it not “reforming” 702, the SSCI bill makes dramatic changes to 702. Effectively, it makes 702 a domestic spying program. The SSCI expands the kinds of criminal prosecutions with which it can use Section 702 data. It does so in Section 5, in what is cynically called “End Use […]

Obama’s UN Ambassador Sought to Unmask Americans on Nearly Daily Basis…

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Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources…

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