Watching the Watchers: Legal Effects of the Section 702 Renewal
By: Carly Nuttall The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) first became law in 1978. Broadly speaking, FISA is a federal law that...
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Oct 16, 20174 min
A Fourth Amendment Sunset: The FISA 702 Program Reauthorization
By Victoria Garcia The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) 702 Program is an ongoing surveillance program that collects...
Nov 16, 20153 min
Third Party Doctrine: Supporting Government’s Desire to Collect Information
In the past decade the Senate and House of Representatives have attempted to address the ever-growing concerns surrounding cyber-attacks...
Nov 16, 20154 min
Limiting Surveillance of non-US Citizens with Presidential Policy Directive Twenty-Eight
In response to the Snowden leaks, President Obama and Congress imposed a series of reforms including Presidential Policy Directive...
Dec 3, 20132 min
Warrantless Wiretapping Fallout Continues
Earlier this year, a Somali-American man, Mohamed Mohamud, was convicted of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction at a Christmas...
Nov 17, 20133 min
Spying for Security or Spying because of Habit?
Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman recently wrote an AP article stating that continued spying on mosques in...
Nov 11, 20132 min
Keep Your Friends Close . . .
The recent media circus surrounding the leaking of classified information concerning our National Security Agency (NSA) cell phone...
Nov 9, 20134 min
Privacy vs. Security: Analyzing Rep. Rogers’ Comments about Privacy in the Context of Blanket NSA Su
On October 29, 2013, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held public hearings regarding NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens, and...
Oct 24, 20134 min
The Necessity of the Haystack to Find the Needle: A Look into the Controversial NSA Bulk Collection
Through leaking thousands of top-secret documents owned by the National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden publicly disclosed the...
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