In April, the government’s surveillance powers under Section 702 of FISA will expire. Since 2015, Congress’s efforts to rein in the surveillance state have largely focused on the NSA’s “FISA 702 database”, and in particular on two things: (a) Closing the backdoor search loophole: Limiting, and requiring a warrant for, queries by other agencies of […]
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The new Fourth Circuit ruling in the long-running Wikimedia Foundation case illustrates a key problem with obtaining redress through the courts for coming under suspicionless mass surveillance