A federal judge ruled in favor of the National Security Agency in a key surveillance case on Tuesday, dismissing a challenge which claimed the government’s spying operations were groundless and unconstitutional. Filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, aimed to end the agency’s warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, which…
As the U.S. Senate readies for a vote on legislation designed to constrain some of the troubling aspects of domestic surveillance and the national security state, both advocacy groups and private industry are weighing in on the measure. A coalition of big-name technology and Internet companies — including Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Dropbox — is…
“Metadata is not trivial,” Electronic Frontier Foundation legal fellow Andrew Crocker said Wednesday, announcing the filing of an amicus brief in Klayman v. Obama, the high-profile lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s program of mass surveillance. The brief, filed jointly by the EFF and the American Civil Liberties Union, declares that “call records collected by…
