By Jennifer Lynch With increasing frequency, law enforcement has been using unconstitutional, suspicionless digital dragnet searches in an attempt to identify unknown suspects in criminal…
By David Greene With little explanation, the Ninth Circuit today affirmed the district court’s decision dismissing our landmark challenge to the US government’s mass communications…
Op-Ed by Insight History The mysterious origins of Bitcoin have led to endless theories pertaining to who Satoshi Nakamoto actually is. One prominent theory, which…
By Cindy Cohn EFF takes on fights for the long run, and some of our longest running legal fights are focused on bringing the National…
By Tyler Durden Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing campaign exposed the National Security Agency in 2013 for having “backdoors” into commercial technology products. The US spy agency…
By John Vibes In a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week, Amazon revealed that former NSA director Keith Alexander will be…
By Aaron Kesel A federal appeals court has ruled that the NSA’s historic controversial domestic spying program was illegal, one of the same programs NSA…
By John Vibes This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA’s controversial spying program was illegal – the same program Edward Snowden released…
By Andrew P. Napolitano During this summer of madness in Portland, Oregon, and sadness over COVID-19, two below-the-radar events occurred implicating the insatiable appetite of…
By B.N. Frank There seems to be no shortage of expert warnings that smartphones and other wireless or “smart” devices offer infinite possibilities for surveillance…
by Chevalier de Lorimier On April 11, 2020, the former Technical Director of the NSA, William Binney, and Pulitzer-prize winning Chris Hedges were discussing on…
By Jake Anderson Most people know by now about the surveillance abuses perpetrated by the NSA earlier this century, but a new book about Edward…
By Janet Phelan In a vote of 80-16, the US Senate yesterday approved HR 6172, which reauthorizes several surveillance authorities originally passed into law via…
By Michael Maharrey People often say we shouldn’t worry about federal surveillance because the federal courts will protect our rights and ensure agencies like the…