Lawmakers reached a tentative agreement to temporarily extend one of the FBI’s most controversial surveillance tools, giving Congress more time to figure out what to do with the program.
One of the FBI’s most controversial surveillance tools faces serious impediments after a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended making it more difficult to gather data.
An FBI analyst improperly searched for the name of two lawmakers, including a U.S. senator, using a warrantless surveillance program that is set to expire and needs the approval of Congress to continue.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 27 accused terrorists were prosecuted since 2007 using evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Reuters reports. The FISA cases vary from murder to an 18-year-old American trying to join an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria. As early as today, the U.S. government plans to disclose how many terrorist attacks…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Facebook are calling for more disclosure of secret requests to hand over date of users, The Guardian reports. “Permitting greater transparency on the aggregate volume and scope of national security requests, including Fisa orders, would help the community understand and debate these important issues,” Microsoft said in an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — When it comes to listening in on conversations or reading emails, the feds have repeatedly violated legal limits of surveillance of U.S. citizens, the Washington Post reports. The Post reports that the conclusion comes from the release of 900 pages of documents obtained by the ACLU in a court…
