Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted Under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted Under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Author: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781495319228

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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is an independent bipartisan agency within the executive branch established by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. The Board is comprised of four part-time members and a full-time chairman, all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. On June 5, 2013, the British newspaper The Guardian published the first of a series of articles based on unauthorized disclosures of classified documents by Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency ("NSA"). The article described an NSA program to collect millions of telephone records, including records about purely domestic calls. Over the course of the next several days, there were additional articles regarding this program as well as another NSA program referred to in leaked documents as "PRISM." These disclosures caused a great deal of concern both over the extent to which they damaged national security and over the nature and scope of the surveillance programs they purported to reveal. In response to the congressional and presidential requests, the Board immediately initiated a study of the 215 and 702 programs and the operation of the FISA court. This Report contains the results of the Board's 215 program study as well as our analysis and recommendations regarding the FISC's operation.

Publications Combined: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - A Court Primer
Publications Combined: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - A Court Primer

Author:

Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13:

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CONTENTS: 1. UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT - RULES OF PROCEDURE Effective November 1, 2010 2. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): An Overview 3. Federal Bureau of Investigation Privacy & Civil Liberties Officer, Office of the General Counsel Protections for United States Person Information Acquired Pursuant to Title I and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 4. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978 [Public Law 95–511; 92 Stat. 1783; approved October 25, 1978] [As Amended Through P.L. 115–118, Enacted January 19, 2018 5. FISA Amendments Act of 2008 6. Review of Procedures and Practices of CIA to Disseminate United States Person Information Acquired Pursuant to Titles I and III and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - August 2017 7. Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts for 2018 8. Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts for 2017 9. Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts for 2016 10. Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts for 2015 11. The FISA Amendments Act: Q&A (2017) 12. Report on the Surveillance Program Operated Pursuant toSection 702of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - July 2, 2014

American Spies
American Spies

Author: Jennifer Stisa Granick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1107103231

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American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance.

The Fundamental Right to Data Protection
The Fundamental Right to Data Protection

Author: Maria Tzanou

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 150990168X

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Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, data protection has been elevated to the status of a fundamental right in the European Union and is now enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights alongside the right to privacy. This timely book investigates the normative significance of data protection as a fundamental right in the EU. The first part of the book examines the scope, the content and the capabilities of data protection as a fundamental right to resolve problems and to provide for an effective protection. It discusses the current approaches to this right in the legal scholarship and the case-law and identifies the limitations that prevent it from having an added value of its own. It suggests a theory of data protection that reconstructs the understanding of this right and could guide courts and legislators on data protection issues. The second part of the book goes on to empirically test the reconstructed right to data protection in four case-studies of counter-terrorism surveillance: communications metadata, travel data, financial data and Internet data surveillance. The book will be of interest to academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners in EU law, privacy, data protection, counter-terrorism and human rights law.

The NSA Report
The NSA Report

Author: President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1400851270

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The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.

Yale Law Journal: Volume 125, Number 2 - November 2015
Yale Law Journal: Volume 125, Number 2 - November 2015

Author: Yale Law Journal

Publisher: Quid Pro Books

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1610278119

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The contents of the November 2015 issue of the Yale Law Journal (Volume 125, Number 2) include: Articles • "The Un-Territoriality of Data," by Jennifer Daskal • "Political Entrenchment and Public Law," by Daryl Levinson & Benjamin I. Sachs Review • "18 Years On: A Re-Review," by Richard A. Posner Note • "Financing the Class: Strengthening the Class Action Through Third-Party Investment," by Tyler W. Hill Comment • "Law Enforcement and Data Privacy: A Forward-Looking Approach," by Reema Shah Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for individual Articles and Notes), proper Bluebook formatting, and active URLs in footnotes. This is the second issue of Volume 125, academic year 2015-2016.

Global Intelligence Oversight
Global Intelligence Oversight

Author: Zachary K. Goldman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0190458070

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Global Intelligence Oversight is a comparative investigation of how democratic countries can govern their intelligence services so that they are effective, but operate within frameworks that are acceptable to their people in an interconnected world. The book demonstrates how the institutions that oversee intelligence agencies participate in the protection of national security while safeguarding civil liberties, balancing among competing national interests, and building public trust in inherently secret activities. It does so by analyzing the role of courts and independent oversight bodies as they operate in countries with robust constitutional frameworks and powerful intelligence services.

Power Wars
Power Wars

Author: Charlie Savage

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 1067

ISBN-13: 0316286605

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.