Thursday, September 22, 2016

Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part II

Location

United States
Author(s): 
Jennifer Granick
Publication Date: 
September 22, 2016
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Last week, we argued that the public discussion surrounding two of the government’s most controversial mass surveillance programs – PRISM and Upstream – has not sufficiently acknowledged the broad scope of collection under these programs, which take place under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In short, hiding behind the counterterrorism justifications for section 702 is a broad surveillance program that sucks up massive amounts of irrelevant private data.



Read Full Story from Of Interest http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/correcting-record-section-702-prerequisite-meaningful-surveillance-reform-part-ii
This article by Jennifer Granick originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on September 23, 2016 at 04:38AM

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