Domestic Surveillance

Expand, Don’t Dismantle, America’s Privacy Watchdog

by Daniel J. Rosenthal

Jan 28th, 2025

What Just Happened: What Trump’s Hobbling of the Privacy Oversight Board Portends for Exercise of Surveillance Powers

by Andrew Weissmann

Jan 22nd, 2025

Congress Must Heed Koh’s Call to Surface Secret Law

by Dakota S. Rudesill

Jan 7th, 2025

The Year(s) of Section 702 Reform, Part VI: (Another) Looming Deadline

by Noah Chauvin and Elizabeth Goitein

Apr 5th, 2024

Concealing Surveillance: The Government’s Disappearing Section 702 Notices

by Sarah Taitz and Patrick C. Toomey

Sep 27th, 2023

The Government’s Section 702 Playbook Doesn’t Work Anymore

by Patrick C. Toomey, Sarah Taitz and Kia Hamadanchy

Aug 30th, 2023

Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law

by Ioannis Kouvakas

Aug 22nd, 2023

The Year of Section 702’s Reauthorization: A Reply on “Back Door” Searches

by George Croner

Mar 8th, 2023

The Use of Biometric Technologies for Counter-terrorism Purposes in a Human Rights Vacuum

by Tomaso Falchetta

Dec 20th, 2021

20 Years After the Patriot Act, America Must End Secret Law

by Senator Ron Wyden

Oct 26th, 2021

Rethinking Surveillance on the 20th Anniversary of the Patriot Act

by Sharon Bradford Franklin

Oct 26th, 2021

What Biden Needs to Say About Surveillance Tech and Foreign Policy

by Monica Greco

Oct 7th, 2021

In the Wake of the January 6 Attacks, Will Congress and the Administration Heed the Lessons of 9/11?

by Russ Feingold

Sep 20th, 2021

The Costs of 9/11’s Suspicionless Surveillance: Suppressing Communities of Color and Political Dissent

by Faiza Patel

Sep 8th, 2021

Encryption Originalism

by Julian Sanchez

Jul 16th, 2021

The Tucker Carlson Disinformation Show

by April Falcon Doss

Jul 2nd, 2021

Protect Communications Privacy for All of Us—Not Just Lawmakers and Reporters

by Elizabeth Goitein

Jun 22nd, 2021

Guardrails Needed for FBI Access to Social Media Monitoring

by Rachel Levinson-Waldman and Jesus A. Rodriguez

Jan 26th, 2021

The Future of U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

by Ashley Gorski, Patrick C. Toomey and Kate Ruane

Nov 11th, 2020

New Technologies, New Problems – Troubling Surveillance Trends in America

by Steven Feldstein and David Wong

Aug 6th, 2020

Can Governments Track the Pandemic and Still Protect Privacy?

by Carrie DeCell

Apr 6th, 2020

Deciphering the FISC’s Order on the Carter Page FISA Application

by Asha Rangappa

Feb 5th, 2020

Correcting the Record: Wiretaps, the CLOUD Act, and the US-UK Agreement

by Jennifer Daskal

Oct 31st, 2019

The FISA Court’s Section 702 Opinions, Part II: Improper Queries and Echoes of “Bulk Collection”

by Elizabeth Goitein

Oct 16th, 2019

Constitution Day 2019: The Hidden Domestic Surveillance Crisis

by Patrick G. Eddington

Sep 17th, 2019

Journalist Watchlist Raises Specter of Civil Rights-Era Secret Surveillance

by Linda Moon

Jun 19th, 2019

Homeland Security’s Intelligence Overreach: Two Cases Illustrate Risks to Civil Society

by Faiza Patel

Mar 8th, 2019

On Big Brother Watch v. U.K.: The Future of Surveillance at Two Europe-Wide Courts

by Eleni Kyriakides

Oct 15th, 2018

New U.K. Law Fails European Court Standards on Mass Interception Disclosed by Snowden

by Scarlet Kim

Sep 27th, 2018

Americans’ Privacy at Stake as Second Circuit Hears Hasbajrami FISA Case

by Elizabeth Goitein

Aug 24th, 2018

Carpenter Ruling Brings Us Back From Brink of Orwellian Surveillance State

by Albert Fox Cahn and Karin Bashir

Jun 28th, 2018

Exigent Circumstances: iOS 12’s USB Restricted Mode and Warrantless iPhone Access

by Riana Pfefferkorn

Jun 22nd, 2018