patriot act
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Capitol Riot Attendee Pleads Guilty to Bomb Plot Against Amazon Data Centre
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to a plot to blow up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. The 28-year-old man, an apparent supporter of former president Donald Trump, bragged about attending the January 7 insurrection at the U.S.…
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The NSA Says It Will Destroy Some Phone Records It Collected Illegally
When the USA Freedom Act passed earlier this summer, the NSA was pushed to stop collecting phone records in bulk. The question of what would happen to the massive amount of data it had already collected on people remained. That question was answered today: Those old troves of metadata are mostly going in the garbage.
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Section 215 Of The Patriot Act Expires — For Now
Section 215 has expired. At least for now. The law that the NSA used to authorise its collection of vast amounts of information about the telephone calls of ordinary Americans is no more. Even though it’s likely temporary, it’s a good thing and we should pause to celebrate a little. The calls and emails Congress…
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The Privacy Paradox: How US Surveillance Acts Contradict Each Other
The report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies on the US government’s mass spying — domestically and around the globe — has much that’s good in it. As the folks handling the only ongoing case where National Security Letters have been declared unconstitutional, we also especially appreciate the recommendation that NSLs…