Our basic human right to privacy has been enumerated in the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Some seek to diminish this right, but we will Restore it.
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16 Feb 2024
wired.com/story/section-702-…
This whole thing was a shitshow. And the reason the spooks and their apologists on HPSCI are so freaked out? because they don't want to have to go to a judge to get Americans data, they would rather secretly buy that data from data brokers.
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12 Feb 2024
Reporting from @politico suggests House intelligence committee leaders want at least part of the floor debate on Section 702 to happen IN SECRET. If true, these are bush league tactics and a new low for opponents of surveillance reform. 1/8
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11 Feb 2024
Interesting 702 update (👋 folks watching the Super Bowl):
-Lawmakers warning the House will go into “secret session” for part of the debate. Would be first time since 2008
-no final text/amendment deal yet but expectation is still for bill on the floor toward end of the week
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5 Dec 2023
1. FBI Director Christopher Wray just told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Congress (1) MUST reauthorize FISA 702, and (2) MUST NOT impose a requirement that FBI obtain a search warrant before conducting “backdoor searches” of American citizens through the 702 database.
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Bipartisan, bicameral #GSRA would stop the surveillance abuses that have run roughshod over our privacy, civil liberties, and Fourth Amendment rights for years. This is how Congress can #fixfisa.
7 Nov 2023
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop warrantless surveillance as a condition for Section 702 renewal.
The bill has diverse political support, including @ACLU, @EFF, @FreedomWorks, @Restore_the4th, @NACDL, @iDueProcess, and others:
reason.com/2023/11/07/lawmak…
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The bipartisan, bicameral #GSRA will create new safeguards for government surveillance, reform outdated surveillance laws, establish protections for Americans, and enforce accountability for abuses. This is the landmark bill Congress needs to #fixfisa.
7 Nov 2023
U.S. Intelligence agencies have been circumventing our 4th Amendment right to privacy by spying on Americans without a warrant.
Today, we introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act that would end abuses under FISA and end unauthorized surveillance programs.
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7 Nov 2023
NEW: A bill introduced today aims to reform #FISA Section 702 to protect privacy w/o compromising #NationalSecurity.
"If passed, it would be the most significant surveillance reform legislation since FISA itself."
Analysis by @LizaGoitein @NoahChauvin:
justsecurity.org/89786/the-y…
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7 Nov 2023
Demand Progress Policy Director @SeanVitka on #GSRA: "The Government Surveillance Reform Act meets this once-in-a-generation moment, and threads the needle. It creates a path, the only path forward for #FISA, and it meaningfully restores Americans’ privacy."
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7 Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of Senators and House members today led by @RonWyden, @SenMikeLee, @WarrenDavidson, @RepZoeLofgren introduced a landmark bill to fix the serious problems with #FISA 702 & other forms of overbroad unchecked government #surveillance.
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9 Jun 2023
We are excited to announce the publication of our latest issue brief on Vehicular Surveillance (Read it here: restorethe4th.com/issues/veh…).
Here's some highlights from the brief, which tackles a widespread yet under explored privacy issue🚗:
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5 May 2023
The whole "intelligence community" has been saying "encryption for me but not for thee" since forever
reason.com/2023/05/05/the-fb…
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5 May 2023
Pro tip: dont take cybersecurity advice from the guy who was pushing the clipper chip lawfareblog.com/cisos-dont-i…
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5 May 2023
To be clear, CISOs *should* be paying attention to the 702 debate. Not because 702 is a magical cyber silver bullet, but because its a mass surveillance program overseen by an agency more interested in breaking systems then it is in defending them.
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5 May 2023
wired.com/1994/06/nsa-clippe…
^ Stewart baker on why the clipper chip is a good idea.
I cant remember which episodes specifically but I also know that at various points on his podcast he's also ranted about how TLS sucks because it kneecaps good NSA snooping.
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13 Apr 2023
Saint Paul is hosting community feedback sesh on purchesing drones tonight at 6pm: West District Office 389 Hamline Ave
stpaul.gov/uas
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13 Apr 2023
Fill out the feedback form! It has some specific yes/no questions like "should we delete data immediatly or keep it 7 days?". app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7f…
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1 Nov 2022
NEW #FOIA SCOOP/🧵Took me 6 yrs to pry this out of NSA
A few wks before @Snowden's leaks were published, 2 NSA employees contacted NSA IG to blow the whistle on unauthorized surveillance
IG substantiated it
W/@KatrinaManson @WilliamTurton @rj_gallagher
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26 Sep 2022
Mixed Feelings. reuters.com/world/europe/put…
Its been almost 10 years, hard to be hopeful that Snowden will ever come back to the US.
Electronic Frontier Alliance member @RT4MN is joining dozens of groups to speak to the @FTC about how it can protect privacy and other rights in its upcoming rule on commercial surveillance and data security. x.com/RT4MN/status/156543636…
1 Sep 2022
Just got confirmation that we are providing comment to FTC on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security. FTC.gov at 1pm Et sep 8th
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8 Sep 2022
Tonight’s meeting details are up!
Chill night, folks who went to @defcon are invited to talk in a panel-style Q&A session. We’ll do some BBQ planning as well.
Will update the post but meeting space is cafe.cyberia.club/dc612 as usual.
dc612.org/index.php/2022/09/…
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5 Sep 2022
There is a lot people can do to protect individual privacy from the dragnet surveillance built into the modern world, but at the end of the day they should not ＊have＊ to do much of anything. Dragnet surveillance should never be the default.
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