DoD and CIA target phones, not people, in global assassination program

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It’s not just the NSA: local prosecutors can get your data without a warrant, too

This guest post was written by ACLU of Massachusetts legal fellow Nashwa Gewaily

Documents strongly suggest the FBI is warrantlessly tracking our phones using high-tech cell phone sniffers

Newly released documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) suggest that since 2010 the FBI has warrantlessly tracked cell phones using sophisticated "sniffing" equipment called Stingrays.

When President Obama speaks on surveillance tomorrow, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will address the nation on the NSA/FBI dragnet surveillance programs, which were revealed by former Booz Allen contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.

AT&T stores either five or twenty-six years of our data, not really sure which

“Gagged, sealed and delivered”: ECPA’s secret surveillance regime

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Excellent news: Massachusetts’ highest court upholds probable cause, judicial oversight standard for extended GPS tracking

Department of Justice has too much access to our electronic communications, not too little

Two articles in today’s press illuminate just how far the Department of Justice is straying from the Fourth Amendment when it comes to electronic surveillance.

Supreme Court majority punts on the question of warrantless spying