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Where the 2024 Presidential Candidates Stand on Privacy and Surveillance

Welcome to Restore the Fourth’s voter guide for the 2024 presidential election. After internal discussions and the release of Vice President Harris’s official policy platform, Restore the Fourth has decided to revise its Presidential Candidates guide. We originally graded Harris as a B. Her recently released policy platform lacks any mention of government surveillance reform […]

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The ’20 Questions’ Problem with the SAFE Act

If the SAFE Act passes, FBI Agents could craft sequential queries to access content without a warrant. A simple “U. S. person query cap amendment” can fix this. Introduction Congress is reviewing whether and how to renew part of the permission it retroactively gave to the administration to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans, in the […]