Page 10 - Section 702 News Today

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will, in its current form, come up for reauthorization in 2017. Broadly speaking, the Section 702 program targets non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States, in order to acquire foreign intelligence. Over the past several years, this surveillance of the online activities of foreigners has been a critical and invaluable tool for American intelligence professionals and officials. Knowledgeable officia...

The report issued by the office of Avril Haines, the US Director of National Intelligence, reveals that there was a three-fold increase in FBI searches of the electronic communications of Americans in the first year of the Biden administration.

These agencies are out of control and must be reined in.

The other shoe just dropped when it comes to how the federal government illegally spies on Americans. Last summer, the details of the...

A case involving the first criminal suspect to be notified by the DOJ that evidence against him was derived from Section 702...

The NSA has never taken its evidentiary obligations seriously. The agency is supposed to inform the court and defendants if...

Thanks to a vast array of almost limitless surveillance powers made possible by a domestic army of techno-tyrants, fusion centers and corporate partners, we now live in a creepy new era of government surveillance - in which we’re being listened to, watched, tracked, followed, mapped, bought, sold and targeted at virtually every turn.

So Reuters had a big exclusive report this morning about Yahoo creating "custom software to search all of its customers&#039...

So, the big story yesterday was clearly the report that Yahoo had secretly agreed to scan all email accounts for a certain character...

After basically all the big tech companies have come out with strong and clear denials, Yahoo this morning released a silly mealy...