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  • The progressive roots of NSA’s privacy violations

    by Guest Contributor Mark Fitzgibbons

    The National Security Agency’s collection of phone metadata of all Americans under the Patriot Act was defended using national security justifications. A substantial number of Americans, however, believe the NSA violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects our security against unreasonable searches and seizures by government.[read_more]…

  • Setback for the NSA Domestic Surveillance Program

    by Paul A. Prados

    Today the second Circuit Court of appeals dealt a blow against government surveillance, but the Fourth Amendment protections against the telephone metadata collection program under the Patriot Act still remain unclear.[read_more] Under § 215 of the Patriot Act the federal government is allowed to collect…

  • Can you hear me now? NO!

    by Jamie Radtke

    This week the House voted (303-121) to shut down the NSA spying program that allowed them to collect large swaths of phone record data without the need for a warrant and keep them for five years. This was a victory for liberty and privacy,  but most the credit for this victory should go to our libertarian friends.