Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:20:53 +0000
Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:52:39 +0000
Legislation set to be introduced in Congress this week would extend Section 702 surveillance of people applying for green cards, asylum, and some visas—subjecting loved ones to similar intrusions.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
In a year pocked with fights over US government funding, Republicans are quietly trying to strip the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its ability to research gun violence.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:03:17 +0000
Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial surveillance program that they say poses an “alarming threat to civil rights.”
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:27:09 +0000
Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
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