Tag: U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
First 100 Days of human rights violations
The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been a disaster for privacy and free expression, with consequences for people all across the globe. Here’s how we’re fighting back.
Privacy Shield: Third unlawful instrument to be approved by EU this year
The latest version of the Privacy Shield data-transfer agreement between Europe and the United States still fails to protect privacy.
Access, EFF Comment to PCLOB Board
This letter provides more background on Executive Order 12333, and asks for increased oversight of the scale and adequacy of other surveillance activities, the problem of over-classification, and the United States’ endorsement and implementation of international human rights principles on surveillance.
The U.S. must respect the rights of all users
The U.S. government believes that those who are not in the U.S. or who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents — “non-U.S. persons” in official parlance — have few to no privacy rights to protect them from U.S. surveillance. Access provides four policy recommendations that would start the U.S. on a course towards respecting the human rights of all people.
It’s exceptionalism. And I’m sick of it.
The global population has become collateral damage in the race to collect surveillance data
PCLOB report fails to consider the rights of non-U.S. persons or promote legislative reform
The PCLOB failed to suggest any reforms that would protect the rights of non-U.S. persons, yet these are precisely the users most frequently and egregiously affected by Section 702 surveillance programs in its report released today.
PCLOB report fails to consider the rights of non-U.S. persons or promote legislative reform
PCLOB Section 702 surveillance report fails to consider the rights of those most affected by Section 702 mass surveillance programs, or address the pressing need for legislative reform.
U.S. top privacy board takes on extraterritorial surveillance
US privacy oversight board slams legality & usefulness bulk data collection
Access sees the PCLOB’s recommendations as a major step toward ending the practice of indiscriminate bulk collection of user data. While the report is limited in its scope, it makes bold statements casting doubt on both the legality and the utility of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs.
Anticipated PCLOB reports: Classified? Toothless?
Last week, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released a statement detailing plans to release not just one, but two reports on NSA surveillance programs. The Board will release one report on metadata collection under PATRIOT Act Section 215 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), expected in late January or early February, and a second report on the targeting of non-US persons under FISA Section 702, with an indeterminate release date. These reports come on the heels of a parallel report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, released in December 2013.