The disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit ...
Those include restricting directives toward entities that primarily serve as dwellings, community facilities, food service establishments or other public accommodations.. . The amendment passed, 236 to 186.. . Still, as the bill heads to the Senate, privacy advocates have warned that the wording remains unacceptably broad. ...
Specifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate. If any such entity balks, the court decides whether it must cooperate ...
The surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria. ...
topSpecifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic...
topThe surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not...
topThe disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702
top... toward entities that primarily serve as dwellings, community facilities, food service establishments or other public accommodations.. . The amendment passed, 236 to 186.. . Still, as the bill heads to the Senate, privacy advocates have warned that the wording remains unacceptably broad.
top... has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit
top... security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate. If any such entity balks, the court decides whether it must cooperate
top... that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate. If any such entity balks, the court decides whether it must cooperate
topThe disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand...
top... dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people - like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment - to act as spies.
topThe surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria.
top... surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria.. . The details were redacted. But according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the judges...
topSpecifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers"...
topPrivacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people - like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment - to act as spies.
topThe disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702
topPrivacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people - like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment - to act as spies.
top11, 2001.. . Specifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers"...
top"If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court
top... the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court.
top"If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court
top"If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court.
top... government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court.
topIf any such entity balks, the court decides whether it must cooperate.. . Last August, the government partly declassified court rulings centered on the dispute
topIf any such entity balks, the court decides whether it must cooperate.. . Last August, the government partly declassified court rulings centered on the dispute.
top"If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court.
topEven as national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries
top... national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate.
top... national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries.
top... security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate.
top... that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate.
top"If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court..
topThe surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria
top... surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria.
top... the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse is with Congress," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, then the presiding judge of the surveillance court.. . And the appellate panel noted that the definition invoked in Section 702 traces back to a law Congress wrote in 1986, meaning that it was "premised on internet...
topEnacted in 2008, it legalized a form of the warrantless surveillance program President George W. Bush began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.. . Specifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew...
topOlsen, the head of the Justice Department's national security division, said the push for the provision was being driven by a way that communications technology had evolved since Congress wrote Section 702 in 2008. But he declined to address whether the rise of data centers was the specific catalyst
top"As technology changes, we have to go back to the fundamental purpose of 702, which is about foreign adversaries who are using U.S
topOlsen, the head of the Justice Department's national security division, said the push for the provision was being driven by a way that communications technology had evolved since Congress wrote Section 702 in 2008
top"As technology changes, we have to go back to the fundamental purpose of 702, which is about foreign adversaries who are using U.S. infrastructure.". . Mr. Olsen also stressed that the law only permits targeting the communications of foreigners abroad and that its use is subject to oversight by all three branches
topcompanies like Google and AT&T, the communications of foreigners abroad who have been targeted for intelligence or counterterrorism purposes - even when they are communicating with Americans.
top... that the provision could be used to conscript someone with access to a journalist's laptop to extract communications between that journalist and a hypothetical foreign source who was targeted for intelligence.
topUnder Section 702, the government may collect, without a warrant and from U.S. companies like Google and AT&T, the communications of foreigners abroad who have been targeted for intelligence or counterterrorism purposes - even when they...
topSpecifically, after the court that oversees national security surveillance approves the government's annual requests seeking to renew the program and setting rules for it, the administration sends directives to "electronic communications service providers" that require them to participate
topUnder Section 702, the government may collect, without a warrant and from U.S. companies like Google and AT&T, the communications of foreigners abroad who have been targeted for intelligence or counterterrorism purposes - even when they are communicating with Americans
topinfrastructure.". . Mr. Olsen also stressed that the law only permits targeting the communications of foreigners abroad and that its use is subject to oversight by all three branches.
topIn recent days, for example, the office of a leading privacy-minded senator, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, has circulated a warning that the provision could be used to conscript someone with access to a journalist's laptop to extract communications between that journalist and a hypothetical foreign source who was targeted for...
topIn recent days, for example, the office of a leading privacy-minded senator, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, has circulated a warning that the provision could be used to conscript someone with access to a journalist's laptop to extract communications between that journalist and a hypothetical...
topIn recent days, for example, the office of a leading privacy-minded senator, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, has circulated a warning that the provision could be used to conscript someone with access to a journalist's laptop to extract communications between that...
top... dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people - like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment - to act as spies.. . Under Section 702, the government may collect, without a warrant and from U.S. companies like Google and AT&T, the communications of foreigners abroad who have been targeted for intelligence or counterterrorism...
top... intend to use the provision so expansively, there was no guarantee that a future administration would agree.. . "This change can be used to turn innumerable scores of Americans into secret government spies, posing a severe threat to hundreds of thousands of big and small businesses and their many millions of customers, clients and users," he said
topSean Vitka, policy director for the civil liberties group Demand Progress, said that even if the Biden administration did not intend to use the provision so expansively, there was no guarantee that a future administration...
topUnredacted portions in both rulings suggested that Congress update the definition if the interpretation was a problem. "If the government believes that the scope of Section 702 directives should be broadened as a matter of national security policy, its recourse...
topcompanies like Google and AT&T, the communications of foreigners abroad who have been targeted for intelligence or counterterrorism purposes - even when they are communicating with Americans.
top... Biden administration did not intend to use the provision so expansively, there was no guarantee that a future administration would agree.. . "This change can be used to turn innumerable scores of Americans into secret government spies, posing a severe threat to hundreds of thousands of big and small businesses and their many millions of customers, clients and users," he said
topSean Vitka, policy director for the civil liberties group Demand Progress, said that even if the Biden administration did not intend to use the provision so expansively, there was no guarantee that a future administration...
top... used to turn innumerable scores of Americans into secret government spies, posing a severe threat to hundreds of thousands of big and small businesses and their many millions of customers, clients and users," he said.
top"This change can be used to turn innumerable scores of Americans into secret government spies, posing a severe threat to hundreds of thousands of big and small businesses and their many millions of customers, clients and users," he said
topLast August, the government partly declassified court rulings centered on the dispute. The surveillance court in 2022, and an appeals court panel a year later, sided with an unidentified company that had objected to being compelled to participate in the program because it believed one of its services did not fit the necessary criteria
topPrivacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people - like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment - to act as spies.