The DAS program echoes multiple dragnet surveillance programs dating back decades, including a Drug Enforcement Agency program launched in 1992 that forced phone companies to surrender records of virtually all calls going to and from over 100 other countries; the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program, which the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals … Read more
Dozens of prominent Asian American groups are asking United States lawmakers this morning to hold fast in the face of an anticipated campaign by congressional leaders to extend the Section 702 surveillance program by securing it, like a rider, to another “must pass” bill. Sixty-three groups across the country representing and allied with Asian American … Read more
Some of the United States’ largest civil liberties groups are urging Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer not to pursue a short-term extension of the Section 702 surveillance program slated to sunset on December 31. The more than 20 groups—Demand Progress, the Brennan Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice among … Read more
The United States National Security Agency is often tight-lipped about its work and intelligence. But at the Cyberwarcon security conference in Washington DC on Thursday, two members of the agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center had a “call to action” for the cybersecurity community: Beware the threat of Chinese government-backed hackers embedding in US critical infrastructure. Alongside … Read more
Leaders in the United States Senate have been discussing plans to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) beyond its December 31 deadline by amending must-pass legislation this month. A senior congressional aide tells WIRED that leadership offices and judiciary sources have both disclosed that discussions are underway about saving the Section … Read more
In 1763, the radical journalist and colonial sympathizer John Wilkes published issue no. 45 of North Briton, a periodical of anonymous essays known for its virulent anti-Scottish drivel—and for viciously satirizing a British prime minister until he quit his job. The fallout from the subsequent plan of the British king, George III, to see Wilkes … Read more
A federal law authorizing a vast amount of the United States military’s foreign intelligence collection is set to expire in two months, pulling the plug on history’s most prolific eavesdropping operation and the primary means by which US spies intercept the private communications of people deemed threatening, or simply interesting, by the US government—the world’s … Read more
Senior United States intelligence officers met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties teams to subject issues about home surveillance operations which have drawn intense scrutiny this summer time amongst an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers within the US Congress. The closed-door session, convened on the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a … Read more
The US Supreme Courtroom has beforehand ordered the federal government to acquire search warrants earlier than searching for data that will “chronicle an individual’s previous actions by means of the file of his cellular phone indicators.” Within the landmark Carpenter v. United States choice, the courtroom discovered that developments in wi-fi expertise had successfully outpaced … Read more
The US authorities has been secretly amassing a “great amount” of “delicate and intimate info” by itself residents, a gaggle of senior advisors knowledgeable Avril Haines, the director of nationwide intelligence, greater than a yr in the past. The scale and scope of the federal government efforts to build up knowledge revealing the minute particulars … Read more