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The recommendations from the executive branch’s privacy watchdog to reform Section 702 puts the panel at odds with the White House.
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A member of the board that reviews U.S. surveillance programs said there have been a “number of compliance issues” regarding Section 702.
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Some data belonging to Americans was swept up in a secret CIA mass surveillance program that operated under atypical legal authority for such an operation, according to a letter released Thursday night by two Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The unnamed program operates “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight” that otherwise would apply, according to the letter from Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. The senators said the “secret bulk collection program” was authorized under presidential Executive Order 12333 from the early 1980s, which covers some activities of U.S. intelligence agencies. Many of the intelligence community’s surveillance programs are covered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which involves a special court that secretly reviews requests for spying. The information released by the senators does not […]
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Privacy advocates are urging President Joe Biden to fill an independent watchdog board that could have an enormous impact on the future of the U.S. surveillance programs raised in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Filling the empty seats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is “necessary to continue to hold the government accountable for safeguarding our privacy and civil liberties in surveillance programs that are often shrouded in secrecy,” a group of nearly two dozen organizations led by the American Civil Liberties Union wrote to the White House Wednesday. While the failure to maintain a quorum of members and chairperson for the independent oversight agency predates the Biden administration, advocates say that by failing to act the White House is missing a key opportunity to examine federal surveillance programs. Numerous legal and civil rights experts have underscored over the years how these programs disproportionately […]
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